MagaSwaga Potent Notables

Notable: John Podesta shows up in Australia

JOHN PODESTA Shows Up In Sydney, AUSTRALIA

Yesterday, Thursday, 7 March, Skippy appeared with the Deputy Leader of the Australian Labor Party (ALP), Tanya Plibersek, for a Q & A held by Sydney University’s Sydney Policy Lab.

In the AU Kabuki theater of two-party politics, the ALP is leftist & loosely equivalent to the Democrat Party in America.

This shows a clear link between Skippy (and all he represents) and the powerbrokers & think-tanks of the Left in AU.

Australia is going to a General Election in a few weeks – most probably in May – exact date has not been announced yet. If you believe the MSM, there appears to be a better-than-average chance that Plibersek will then become the Deputy Prime Minister of the Australian Nation with Bill Shorten as Prime Minister.

The event appears to have gained very little traction in the media – especially as the deputy leader of a major political party was involved during the run-up to a Federal Election.

Was a FREE EVENT - that in itself seems strange.

Could be dig-worthy Anons…

https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/john-podesta-the-path-to-progress-tickets-56954455309

https://twitter.com/tanya_plibersek

https://twitter.com/SydneyPolicyLab

https://twitter.com/McKellInstitute

https://twitter.com/ChifleyResearch

Notable: World Jewish Congress: Democrats Watered Down Resolution on Antisemitism

World Jewish Congress: Democrats Watered Down Resolution on Antisemitism

World Jewish Congress president Ronald S. Lauder criticized the U.S. House of Representatives for “watering down” a resolution on antisemitism Thursday that House Democrats broadened to include a variety of other groups.

The resolution, which passed 407-23, was prompted by the recent antisemitic remarks of Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN). However, Democratic Party leaders ensured that the resolution did not actually mention Omar, and did not focus on antisemitism, but also included a variety of other groups that have been targets of discrimination in other contexts.

In a statement released Thursday, Lauder said: “The unfortunate decision by the US House leadership to dilute a forthright condemnation of antisemitism is both irresponsible and dangerous.”

Laude’s statement continued:

“The House of Representatives failed to explicitly condemn antisemitism as a unique and targeted form of hatred, and to recognize that any inflammatory rhetoric that utilizes antisemitic tropes to criticize the State of Israel and fan the flames of hatred against Jews is unacceptable across the board and must be met with zero tolerance and immediate condemnation.”

“Instead, the House has regrettably chosen to water down the resolution, thus sanctioning Representative Ilhan Omar’s remarks, which put the loyalty of American Jewry into question. All forms of bigotry and xenophobia, including Islamophobia, should be condemned, but we must not forget the specific nature of antisemitism within the current climate of anti-Zionism and rising attacks against Jews,” Lauder said.

“The fabric of American society lies in its democracy, and we should be celebrating, not condemning, the support that the United States has for its great ally, the State of Israel, its sister democracy in the Middle East,” Lauder said.

“Congress plays a crucial role in combating antisemitism. Congress should not be a place that gives antisemitism a voice in this country and it must voice its clear opposition to this age-old hatred strongly and unequivocally. The world looks to the United States for leadership in this fight and the United States must not fail to live up to its leadership role,” Mr. Lauder said. “Unequivocally rejecting antisemitism is part of the values that America has alw

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/03/07/world-jewish-congress-democrats-watered-down-resolution-on-antisemitism/

Notable: Judge calls for Manafort to be given credit for time served

n Huge Blow to Mueller, Judge T.S. Ellis Wants Manafort to be Given Credit For Time Served

On Thursday evening, Judge T.S. Ellis rejected Mueller’s “excessive” recommendation that Paul Manafort serve 19.5 to 24.5 years in prison after a Virginia jury convicted Manafort on 8 counts of bank and tax fraud.

The Reagan-appointed judge sentenced Manafort to 47 months in prison.

In another blow to Mueller, Judge T.S. Ellis also wants Paul Manafort to be given credit for the 9 months he has already served in jail.

If this happens, Manafort will only have to serve 38 months (just over 3 years) in jail.

“Judge wants Paul Manafort to be given credit for the nine months he’s spent in jail, after a different judge revoked his bond last June. If that happens, Manafort’s time in prison from now on would total a little more than three years,” crime reporter Shimon Prokupecz tweeted on Thursday evening.

Paul Manafort was seated in a wheelchair and green prison jumpsuit during Thursday’s hearing and pleaded with the judge to have some compassion, reported CNBC.

“The last two years have been the most difficult for my family and I,” Manafort said in his plea.

“To say I have been humiliated and ashamed would be a gross understatement,” he said.

Judge Ellis rejected Mueller’s “excessive” recommendation and gave Manafort a much lighter sentence.

Manafort faces sentencing in a separate case in a DC court next week.

A couple weeks ago, Mueller released his redacted sentencing memo on Paul Manafort in the Washington D.C. case where Manafort was on trial for his Ukrainian lobbying.

Mueller accused Manafort of “repeatedly and brazenly” breaking the law — recall, Mueller gave Tony Podesta immunity in this case even though just like Manafort, he failed to file a FARA form in a timely manner.

Corrupt Obama-appointed Judge Amy Berman Jackson is assigned to Paul Manafort’s DC case where he was charged with two felony counts and will be sentenced next week by Jackson.

Mueller did not disclose how many years he recommended Manafort serve in the DC case, however, under the law Manafort faces 10 years maximum prison time for two felony counts.

President Trump should take a blowtorch to Mueller and pardon Manafort after his second round of sentencing next week.

Correction: Judge T.S. Ellis was appointed by Ronald Reagan, not Donald Trump.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/03/in-huge-blow-to-mueller-trump-appointed-judge-t-s-ellis-wants-manafort-to-be-given-credit-for-time-served/

Notable: The Red Thread: Big day for Judicial Watch tomorrow

https://twitter.com/JudicialWatch/status/1103837742419595264

Notable: Is Denver IA built on ancient Native American graves?

http://diaconspiracyfiles.com/2009/05/16/dia-and-ancient-indian-burial-grounds/

DENVER AIRPORT BUILT ON INDIAN BURIAL GROUNDS.

Notable: Chelsea Manning releases statement re Secret Grand Jury tomorrow

Secret Grand Jury

://twitter.com/xychelsea/status/1103713700391907329?s=19

Notable: Is this why POTUS accepted FDA chiefs resignation?

Is this why trump accepted FDA chiefs resignation? (Reposting since i posted late on lb) Fda chief resigned less then 13 days after threatening to eliminate vaccine exemptions. No councidences.

https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/health-care/item/31551-fda-boss-to-states-eliminate-vaccine-exemptions-or-else

"Food and Drug Administration boss Scott Gottlieb (shown) is now threatening to use federal force. Indeed, in bizarre comments made to national media, the senior health bureaucrat threatened that growing nationwide resistance to vaccination mandates may “force the hand of the federal government.” In short, Gottlieb wants to force states to vaccinate children, even if it goes against the religion or conscience of the parents. "

"President Donald Trump, has repeatedly suggested that vaccines may not be as safe and effective as Big Pharma and its government cronies want people to think they are."

https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/432708-fda-chief-scott-gottlieb-resigns-reports

"His resignation was unexpected, as he recently hired senior staff."

“I want to be very clear – I’m not leaving,” he tweeted two months ago. “We’ve got a lot important policy we’ll advance this year."

Notable: SpaceX test flight Crew Dragon expected to re-enter tomorrow

Tomorrow morning, the SpaceX test flight of the Crew Dragon spacecraft is expected to splash down near 8:45 am ET in the Atlantic Ocean offshore Cape Canaveral. The re-entry track comes in from the northwest, crossing the Pacific coastline near Vancouver, then passing over the continental United States. Spacecraft re-entries can be very visible, as the spacecraft dissipates kinetic energy in the atmosphere. But since this is the first time a Dragon has come in over the US, no one really knows what to expect, or how visible and bright it may become. Reports are that the best visibility may be in the Carolinas, but if you're anywhere near the groundtrack, you may want to give this a shot.

The attached images show a discussion on the Seesat satellite tracking message forum, an article from space.com, and the approximate groundtrack across the United States. The maps show the track of the space station; this doesn't exactly match the capsule (as it will be separating hours before, lowering orbit for re-entry, etc) but it's pretty close as a general concept.

Q relevance: Q and POTUS have both hinted strongly that there's something important going on with space. Also there is interest in where SpaceX falls into the big picture presently. Don't know if Dragon specfically is important to follow, but this is an opportunity to see the spacecraft with your own eyes. First-hand evidence is a good thing …

From space.com:

Those living in parts of the Ohio and Tennessee valleys, the Piedmont region and the southeastern coast of the U.S. may be able to catch a glimpse of the SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule Friday morning as it re-enters Earth's atmosphere with a fiery trail that will end over the Atlantic Ocean a few hundred miles east of Florida.

According to NASA's press kit, "Crew Dragon will autonomously undock from the International Space Station on Friday, March 8, at approximately 2:30 a.m. EST [0730 GMT]. About five hours after Dragon departs the space station it will conduct its deorbit burn, which lasts up to 15 minutes. It takes about 35 to 40 minutes for Dragon to re-enter the Earth's atmosphere and splash down in the Atlantic Ocean, which is currently targeted for approximately 8:45 a.m. EST [1345 GMT]."

There has been a lively discussion on the satellite observer Seesat Internet List about spotting the bright plasma trail created by the Dragon capsule as it rushes through the atmosphere, quite possibly becoming bright enough to be seen even through the light of day.

Dragon's final ground track runs across North America, from approximately just north of Vancouver Island on the Pacific Coast; southeast to Charleston, South Carolina, on the East Coast; and out to sea over the open waters of the Atlantic.

Because this is the first time this re-entry vehicle has traveled this particular course, there is some uncertainty about what might be seen. It appears that the best odds of seeing a possible fireball caused by the Dragon capsule will be for those within about 100 miles (160 kilometers) of a line extending from central Kentucky to the South Carolina coast, near Charleston, from about 8:42 to 8:44 a.m. EST.

Observers might even be able to hear the re-entering Dragon by virtue of a sonic boom, which would create a distinct "thump" as the vehicle speeds by. The best chances to hear a boom for this to happen will likely be near the South Carolina coast.

If you live farther to the northwest — from roughly central Iowa, to central Illinois and southern Indiana — it's worth a try to spot the beginning of the Dragon re-entry. In the Central time zone, cast your gaze upward between about 7:34 and 7:37 a.m.

The Dragon capsule weighs approximately 10 tons (9 metric tons). In his book "Observing Earth Satellites" (Van Nostrand Reinhold Co., 1983), author Desmond King-Hele wrote:

"When a two-ton satellite enters the atmosphere, usually at a speed close to 8 km (5 miles) per second, it possesses prodigious energy of motion, roughly equal to that of 50,000 cars all traveling at 100 km (62 miles) per hour. Nearly all that energy is converted to heat and light as the satellite plunges into the thicker air. It usually begins to glow at a height of about 90 km (55 miles) and continues its firework display down to a height of 30 km (20 miles). By then it has lost most of its initial velocity, and any remaining fragments begin to fall at a steep angle. People who have seen a satellite burn up all agree that it is a spectacular sight."

Sadly, as of this writing, the latest weather forecasts suggest rather cloudy skies across much of the potential visibility zone on Friday morning.

Notable: Dems unveil 'Save The Internet Act' to save Net Neutrality

Democrats trying to suppress the internet, will Internet Bill of Rights counter?

https://www.dailydot.com/layer8/save-the-internet-bill-net-neutrality/

Notable: Planefag report

Hese's something odd … Can a Lockheed C5M fly at nearly 58,000 feet?

Notable: @USMC tweet: 777

Well there's a boom.

777

Notable: The differences between Epstein, Asimov and Manafort's sentences

https://twitter.com/AnOpenSecret/status/1103827387354103808

Notable: Planefag Report

repost with correct pics.

shadilay anons

>>5566311

E-3B Sentry between Eglin and Dothan.

Haven't planefagged in a while but sure seems like a lot of activity on E coast USA for this time and day of week.

Score17 callsign kek.

Notable: Wray: China has become the number one counterintelligence threat

FBI Director Christopher Wray says China has become the number one counterintelligence threat.

https://www.crn.com/news/security/video/rsa-2019-recap-fbi-director-christopher-wray-says-cyber-threats-have-reached-an-unseen-level

Notable: More digs on C_A data collection using FB, and IOS and Android OS's

>>5565330 pb notable

>>5565314 pb notable

my only reservation to this mega notable is that it seems strange that a C_A cyber weapon, existence of which was leaked via vault 7, is exploited by the NSA against them, without the clowns having any ability to counter it.

From what I understand it is something that is a malware on the firmware level? or maybe windows system file level?

it seems weird that the clowns didn't develop a "patch" in case this malware will be used against them.

more digs on C_A data collection using FB, and IOS and Android operating systems

Another thing is that q talked about the following (see attached).

Blackberry was scrapped, and other competitors were pushed forward. Blackberry is known to be "safe", and used by federal officials from what I recall, why was blackberry destroyed?

It could be because they wanted to push for compromised operating systems - Android (by google) and IOS (by apple).

>BlackBerry was one of the most prominent smartphone vendors in the world, specializing in secure communications and mobile productivity, and well-known for the keyboards on most of its devices. At its peak in September 2013, there were 85 million BlackBerry subscribers worldwide.[2][3] However, BlackBerry has since lost its dominant position in the market due to the success of the Android and iOS platforms; the same numbers had fallen to 23 million in March 2016.[4]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BlackBerry

And look at that, Blackberry is still operational but they stopped making their own operating systems in Jan 2013:

>BlackBerry OS was discontinued after the release of BlackBerry 10 in January 2013, however support for the older OS continued until the end of 2013.[7]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BlackBerry_OS

So it were in fact the operating systems that appear to be compromised, and thus they were pushed while Blackberry were "convinced" to drop their operating system developments.

Q asked, how can they keep following you even if you delete the FB app?

The answer is - once you have a FB profile, or a google profile, the surveillance is done on the operating system level. You can delete the apps, but the data is still collected, and the profile was already created once, so it exists in their data base. All it needs for data transmision is an internet connection.

Notable: Dig: Charles Ansbacher commissioned the Denver Airport art

Wow, what a strange dig.

Looking into the art work of the Denver Airport leads to Charles Ansbacher, who was

responsible for commissioning all of the art.

https://diaconspiracyfiles.com/2010/09/16/new-world-airport-commission-founder-dies/

Charles was the child of Heinz Ansbacher and Rowena Ripin Ansbacher, two renowned psychologists specializing in

Alderian Psychology.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Ansbacher

Alderian Psychology

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_Adlerian_psychology

states many things but one of the most intedasting is this little gem:

"The early childhood feeling of inferiority, for which one aims to compensate, leads to the creation of a fictional final goal which subjectively seems to promise total relief from the feeling of inferiority, future security, and success. The depth of the inferior feeling usually determines the height of the goal which then becomes the "final cause" of behaviour patterns."

and

Compensation for feelings of inferiority:

"A tendency to make up for underdevelopment of physical or mental functioning through interest and training, usually within a relatively normal range of development. Over-compensation reflects a more powerful impulse to gain an extra margin of development, frequently beyond the normal range. This may take a useful direction toward exceptional achievement, as the stutterer Demosthenes became an outstanding orator,[8] or a useless direction toward excessive perfectionism. Genius may result from extraordinary over-compensation. Under-compensation reflects a less active, even passive attitude toward development that usually places excessive expectations and demands on other people."

Which lends towards a quick summation of what "they" have been doing to our children.

If we apply Alderian Psychology to the millennial teachings of "you are so very special regardless of how

good you are"(never allowing inferiority to set in). This type of teaching/upgringing, would in Alderian

theory, result in an adult who, in theory, should be just as happy sweeping floors as learning, progressing,

striving, competing, and developing. Happy with mediocrity (or less) as long as they are continued to be

praised. No desire to put effort towards excellence. A generation that would be more than happy to, or even

tend, to let other countries lead them.

Is this the psychological foundation upon which they've been working?

They've knowingly been trying to produce a generation of followers / socialist liberals.

(and it looks like they've somewhat succeeded)

Notable: Manafort Given 47 Months in Prison

Trump Ex-Campaign Manager Manafort Given 47 Months in Prison

Paul Manafort, political consultant and former election campaign manager for US President Donald Trump, has been sentenced to just shy of four years in prison for financial crimes. He is expected to serve only 38 more months because of time already spent behind bars. Manafort was also ordered to pay a $50,000 fine.

Judge T.S. Ellis III of the United States District Court in Alexandria, Virginia, ruled that the 70-year-old Manafort, who once served as campaign chairman of Trump's 2016 presidential election campaign, will serve only a tiny fraction of the time in prison prosecutors sought.

During comments prior to his sentencing, Manafort told the court that his life is "professionally and financially in shambles."

"To say I have been humiliated and ashamed would be a gross understatement," he continued.

"I appreciate the fairness" of this court during the proceedings, Manafort reportedly told Ellis, speaking from a wheelchair. "You bent over backwards… Thank you for a fair trial… I ask you to be compassionate."

The judge consented, noting that the recommended sentence of 19-24 years was, in his view, "excessive."

Ellis began the sentencing hearing by noting that "we are not here for Russian collusion," CNN reported. Indeed, none of the crimes Manafort has been charged with include any type of collusion: all deal with financial crimes such as bank fraud, money laundering and tax evasion, related to his time as a political consultant working for clients in Ukraine.

Ellis made it clear early in the August 2018 trial that he wouldn't tolerate political games in his courtroom.

https://sputniknews.com/us/201903081073050548-Trump-Ex-campaign-manager-Manafort-Sentenced/

Notable: Donna Zuckerberg's book on the 'manosphere'

Does anyone else find it strange that Mark Zuckerberg's sister wrote a book about:

"…the Red Pill…also known as the manosphere'.[13] The 'manosphere' includes numerous factions such as men's rights activists, pickup artists, and Men Going Their Own Way.[13] The groups are united by the understanding that they are disadvantaged by contemporary society which operates in favour of women…"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donna_Zuckerberg

Notable: Household Net Worth Tumbles By $3.7 Trillion, First Drop In 4 Years

Household Net Worth Tumbles By $3.7 Trillion, First Drop In 4 Years

In the Fed's latest Flow of Funds report released at noon today, the Fed published the latest snapshot of the US "household" sector as of Dec 31, 2018. What it revealed is that with $120.4 trillion in assets and a modest $16.1 trillion in liabilities, the net worth of US households dipped to $104.3 trillion, its first drop after 12 consecutive quarters of increases, and down $3.7 trillion as a result of the near-bear market in the fourth quarter, which wiped out estimated $4 trillion in various financial assets like corporate equities, mutual and pension funds, and deposits after the market tumbled in Q4, offset by a $345 billion increase in tangible assets, of which $280 billion was in real estate values.

Total household assets in Q4 dropped 3.7 trillion to $120.4 trillion, the first drop since Q3 2015, while at the same time total liabilities, i.e., household borrowings, rose by $133 billion from $15.9 trillion to $16.1 trillion, the bulk of which was $10.3 trillion in home mortgages. Homeowners’ real estate holdings minus the change in mortgage debt rose by $223 billion (a positive number means that the value of real estate is growing at a faster pace than household mortgage debt).

The breakdown of the total household balance sheet as of Q4 is shown below.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-03-07/household-net-worth-tumbles-37-trillion-first-drop-4-years

Notable: Reports: Tesla Sending Employees Home Mid-Shift, Cutting Inventory

Tesla Reportedly Sending Employees Home Mid-Shift, Cutting Assembly Inventory

Literally hours after we reported that Tesla was firing even more people at its Fremont, California factory – layoffs that appeared to have not been included as part of a disclosed plan – the company implemented even more significant cost-cutting efforts that have already affected employee work schedules and impacted the supply of parts used to make vehicles. As CNBC reports, Tesla is sending employees home and cutting basic inventory at its Fremont factory.

The report stated that there were several new cost reduction measures launched by Tesla, but these haven't made public.

First, the company is apparently asking employees to work remotely and keep their travel costs to a minimum.

Second, the company is telling hourly employees at its Sparks, Nevada Gigafactory, where Tesla makes batteries and drivetrains, to leave in the middle of their shifts. The company is also telling employees to take paid or unpaid time off, according to the report.

As a result, the inventory of rivets and fasteners – two main components in vehicle assembly - has reportedly been "reduced".

The latest news follow Tesla layoffs that have impacted about 8% percent of the company's employees over the last week, CNBC reported.

In its 2018 annual report, Tesla said it had 48,817 employees. Subtracting an estimated 9 percent for January’s layoffs brings that total down to 44,423 and subtracting another 8 percent — following Tesla’s move to close most stores — would put Tesla’s head count around 40,869 today.

This all comes after Tesla's late February announcement that it would close many of its retail stores and convert the remaining stores to galleries, while shifting sales to an online-only model. Elon Musk said during the company's secretive follow up conference call that he would not specify the size of the layoffs that would occur as a result of these retail stores closing. He claimed they were part of a cost-cutting effort that was put in place to help the company's $35,000 Model 3 be cost efficient.

But what is most troubling - for investors in the $50 billion market cap company - is that this recent slate of layoffs is the third such round of layoffs over the last 12 months. This follows a 9% workforce reduction in June and a 7% cut in January. One wonders if these are all just hallmarks of a "growth story" that deserves a ridiculously premium valuation.

Most puzzling of all is that this news all follows a June 2018 e-mail, where Elon Musk claimed to employees that he would never have to initiate another round of layoffs.

"I also want to emphasize that we are making this hard decision now so that we never have to do this again," Musk said in June; in retrospect, "never" has a slightly different meaning in "longville."

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-03-07/tesla-reportedly-sending-employees-home-mid-shift-cutting-assembly-inventory

Notable: Looking at the 'calander' Q provided and the Huber/Barr meeting

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/02/15/whitaker-justice-department-attorney-general-counselor-1172109

If you look at the "calendar" provided by Q, which should be tracked and updated, we can possibly see where we are.

Feb 15 Whitaker remains senior

Mar 07 Barr meets Huber

OIG report next? Declass already happened?

Notable: Facebook opens Denver office

>>5565725

https://www.denverpost.com/2018/11/16/facebook-opens-denver-office/

The office officially opened Monday in a 23,663-square-foot space near Union Station. Steve Politis, the on-site lead for the new office, said Facebook was attracted by the area’s “huge foundation” of telecommunications companies and talented network engineers and network security and software engineers.

“Denver is a national place where Facebook wants to be and invest,” said Politis, who is head of Facebook’s network planning team.

For Politis, who moved to Colorado when he was a teenager, the opening of Facebook’s first office in Denver offers the best of two worlds. He had worked for the social media giant in California and then went to another company after returning to Colorado to be near family. He previously worked for Microsoft and Level 3 Communications.

Is there something going on with this? The Denver drop is in the middle of the facebook drops.

Notable: Filing of complaint against AOC

Official FEC Complaint Alleges Rep. Ocasio-Cortez Laundered Money Through PAC to Provide Campaign Funds to Boyfriend

The Coolidge-Reagan Foundation filed official complaint before the Federal Election Commission on February 27 that accuses Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of laundering money through a PAC to provide campaign funds for her boyfriend Riley Roberts.

On February 15th TGP contributor Cassandra Fairbanks reported on reporter Luke Thompson’s accusations that Democrat Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) put her boyfriend on staff drawing a salary on the taxpayer’s dime. Twitter temporarily suspended Thompson for making the accusations.

Boyfriend Riley Roberts is listed in the congressional directory as staff, not as a boyfriend or spouse.

The Coolidge-Reagan Foundation accuses Ocasio-Cortez of using a PAC to pay her boyfriend. The court document accuses AOC of funneling money from her official campaign account to her boyfriend.

According to the FEC suit: Over the span of a little more than a month, AOC’s campaign committee paid just over $6,000 to Brand New Congress PAC, while its affiliated LLC turned around and paid her boyfriend $6,000. Ocasio-Cortez subsequently hired Chakrabarti, who created the entities which conducted these transactions and facilitated the transfer of Ocasio-Cortez’s official campaign funds to her boyfriend, as the Chief of Staff of her congressional office.

A copy of the lawsuit from the Coolidge-Reagan Foundation is posted below.

The Washington Times reported:

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was hit Thursday with an ethics complaint for listing her live-in boyfriend as a staff member and getting him an official House email address.

The liberal superstar violated at least two provisions of the House Code of Official Conduct and possibly U.S. criminal law by making false statements about boyfriend Riley Roberts being a staff member, according to the complaint by the conservative Coolidge Reagan Foundation.

“AOC has gotten away with utter hypocrisy for far too long. The Coolidge Reagan Foundation will do whatever it takes to expose AOC’s transgressions and hold her accountable,” said Shaun McCutcheon, the chairman of the foundation. “We’re going to actively monitor AOC’s campaign finance reports and congressional actions to push back on her un-American, anti-speech agenda.”

Ms. Ocasio-Cortez, New York Democrat, has denied any wrongdoing and accused conservative groups of targeting her.

The congresswoman’s office has said that Mr. Roberts is not a staff member and receives the same benefits as spouses, including a House email address.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/03/breaking-lawsuit-alleges-rep-ocasio-cortez-laundered-money-through-pac-to-provide-campaign-funds-to-boyfriend/

Filing:

https://www.scribd.com/document/401342733/Coolidge-Reagan-Foundation-Lawsuit-Alleges-Rep-Ocasio-Cortez-Laundered-Money-Through-PAC-to-Provide-Campaign-Funds-to-Boyfriend#from_embed

Notable: Planefag Report

B-52 DOOM82 and RAF aircraft near Vegas.

Notable: Lindsay Graham reboots FISA

Lindsay Graham reboots FISA

Notable: US Gov. Media Network Fires Journalists Over Report Critical of Soros

U.S. Government Media Network Fires Journalists Over Report Critical of Soros

By Judicial Watch —— Bio and Archives–March 6, 2019

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At the request of a scandal-plagued Democratic senator tried for bribery and corruption, the head of the government’s international media networks is abusing his office to punish employees behind a broadcast critical of leftwing billionaire George Soros. U.S.

Agency for Global Media (USAGM) Chief John F. Lansing, an Obama appointee, is utilizing Stalinist techniques to retaliate against the journalists and producers involved in the Spanish-language segment which aired in May 2018 on Television Marti and was available for months online. Eight reporters and editors at the taxpayer-funded media outlet have been fired and Lansing has ordered a review of all content to address “patterns of unethical, unprofessional, biased, or sub-standard journalism.”

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An employee at the Miami, Florida-based Martí headquarters said in a local newspaper report “the environment that has been created by the upper hierarchy of the Agency for Global Media is repressive. People write with fear. Adjectives are no longer used.”

Television Marti—and its radio counterpart—operate under the Office of Cuba Broadcasting (OCB) and comprise one of the USAGM’s five international multimedia networks. The others are Voice of America (VOA), Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL), Radio Free Asia and Middle East Broadcasting. The media outlets get about $685 million a year from American taxpayers and reportedly reach 345 million people worldwide in 59 languages.

The global media agency was created to counter disinformation spread by oppressive regimes abroad. The USAGM website states that its mission is “to inform, engage and connect people around the world in support of freedom and democracy.” Television and Radio Martí were created to promote freedom and democracy by providing the people of Cuba with objective news and information programming.

The Soros broadcast focused on his efforts to cripple sovereign governments in Latin America. Judicial Watch was cited as a source because it investigated State Department funding of Soros groups in Colombia and published a report on Soros’ initiatives to advance a radical globalist agenda in Guatemala. Judicial Watch also released a special report documenting the financial and staffing nexus between Soros’ Open Society Foundations (OSF) and the U.S. government.

In that document, Judicial Watch connects the dots between U.S.-funded entities and OSF affiliates to further the Hungarian-born philanthropist’s agenda seeking to destabilize legitimate governments, erase national borders, target conservative politicians, finance civil unrest, subvert institutions of higher education, and orchestrate refugee crises for political gain. A few years ago Judicial Watch exposed a scheme in which the U.S. government spent millions of dollars to destabilize the democratically elected, center-right government in Macedonia by colluding with Soros’ OSF.

More than five months after the Spanish-language Soros broadcast aired on Television Martí, the segment caught the eye of disgraced New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez. In an October 31, 2018 letter to Lansing, the senator orders an immediate investigation into the Soros broadcast as well as an audit “on patterns of unethical and unprofessional reporting” at OCB. Menendez also smears Judicial Watch, stating that the Soros segment had “no credible sourcing” and “occasionally cites only a fringe website.”

Lansing uses similar language in a mainstream newspaper article about the recent Martí firings over the Soros video. “The person developing the Soros story was using Judicial Watch as a source as I understand it—the story was not only poorly sourced, it relied heavily on one less-than-credible source,” Lansing says in the article, which states that “Soros has emerged as a leading boogeyman on the right.”

Menendez, who serves on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee despite his sordid history, blocked President Trump’s nomination last year to replace Lansing as USAGM chief. A few years ago, Menendez was charged with federal bribery and corruption stemming from his relationship with a crooked south Florida eye doctor that lavished him with cash, gifts and trips in exchange for political favors. The eye doctor, Salomon Melgen, got convicted of stealing $73 million from Medicare and was sentenced to 17 years in prison. Menendez got off because jurors were unable to reach a verdict and his trial ended in mistrial.

Sauce:

https://canadafreepress.com/article/u.s.-government-media-network-fires-journalists-over-report-critical-of-sor

Notable: , >>5565313 Court weighs unsealing Epstein sex abuse records

Court weighs unsealing records that could reveal new details of Jeffrey Epstein sex abuse

(FOX News JUST NOW: Alan Dershowitz wants the sealed documents in the Jeffrey Epstein case to go public.)

The girls who were abused by Jeffrey Epstein and the cops who championed their cause remain angry over what they regard as a gross injustice, while Epstein's employees and those who engineered his non-prosecution agreement have prospered.

By Julie K. Brown -March 06, 2019 09:03 PM,

Updated 11 hours 38 minutes ago

Privacy rights versus press freedoms took center stage Wednesday at an explosive federal appeals court hearing in New York, where lawyers argued to unseal confidential court files that could reveal evidence of an underage sex trafficking operation allegedly run by New York multimillionaire Jeffrey Epstein and his partner, British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit reserved judgment in the case, but the panel suggested it was leaning toward the release to the public of vast portions of the court record. The file on the case, which was settled in 2017, contains more than 1,000 documents, lawyers said during oral arguments led by the Miami Herald, which seeks to open the entire file.

Most of the documents, including court orders and motions, were filed under seal or heavily redacted, similar to other cases in New York and Florida involving the wealthy, politically connected money manager. Epstein, now 66, was not a party to the lawsuit, which was filed against Maxwell in 2015 by Virginia Roberts Giuffre, who claimed she was recruited by the pair to perform massages on them when she was 16 and known as Virginia Roberts. Giuffre claims she and other girls were sexually abused and pimped out to a number of wealthy influential people from 1999 to 2002.

The Herald said that while some redactions of personal information, including the names of other possible underage victims, are appropriate, the blanket sealing of the case violated the First Amendment, which grants citizens a presumptive right of access to court records, except in the rarest of circumstances.

The Herald’s lawyer, Sanford Bohrer, told the three-judge appeals court panel that the case should be unsealed in its entirety because the law provides the public with access in order to hold legal institutions accountable and to maintain confidence that they will protect the most vulnerable in society.

Two other parties to the appeal, attorneys for Harvard lawyer Alan Dershowitz and conservative social media blogger Michael Cernovich, also argued to unseal the entire case file. Dershowitz’s lawyer, Andrew G. Celli Jr., wanted the court to release three documents immediately, saying they were necessary to exonerate his client, who has been accused of being involved in Epstein’s crimes.

Dershowitz, 81, was among a team of lawyers who represented Epstein when he came under criminal investigation in Palm Beach in 2005. Epstein was accused by more than three dozen girls, most of them 13 to 16, of luring them to his mansion to give him massages that turned into sex acts. He then used those same girls to recruit more girls over a period of several years, court and police records show.

In 2008, Epstein received an unusually lenient plea deal that gave him and an untold number of others who were not cited by name immunity from federal prosecution. That plea deal was brokered under former Miami U.S. Attorney Alexander Acosta, who is currently President Donald Trump’s secretary of labor. Acosta’s handling of the case is now under investigation by the Justice Department.

Last week, a federal judge ruled that the agreement was illegal because Acosta and other prosecutors failed to inform Epstein’s victims about the deal in violation of the Crime Victims’ Rights Act.

Maxwell, the daughter of the late British publishing baron Robert Maxwell, has never been charged and has denied that she was involved in any crimes.

Dershowitz has disputed allegations that he was involved. He maintains the court record in the case contains evidence that Giuffre was writing a book manuscript at the time she publicly accused him of having sex with her when she was underage.

Prior to the hearing, Dershowitz’s attorney had suggested that the appeals panel might want to allow him to present part of his argument outside the presence of opposing lawyers, the news media and the public. The judges did not grant or even address that suggestion, made in a letter to the court.

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/article227184299.html

Notable: New JW FOIA release: Christopher Steele worked with DoJ on #SpyGate

Faggots, ignore the muhjooshills for a minute and take a look at Judicial Watch's FOAI release:

Collusion. @JudicialWatch: smoking gun docs show Christopher Steele, a Hillary Clinton operative/anti-Trump foreign national, secretly worked with DOJ on its illicit targeting of @RealDonaldTrump, Kudos to our JW team! (Pic w/JW attorney Ramona Cotca)

CST

https://twitter.com/TomFitton/status/1103808266189094913

caps are sampling

http://www.judicialwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/JW-v-DOJ-Ohr-Steele-Fusion-GPS-00490.pdf

Notable: Twitter reactions to Omar's comments

>>5565120

Omar criticized Americans, saying those who support Israel have an “allegiance” to a foreign nation. This has nothing to do with legitimate criticism of Israel’s policies. It is an anti-Semitic criticism of Jewish Americans.

twitter.com/AriFleischer/status/1103724615757516801

Warren, Bernie, and Harris are getting away with claiming that Omar has merely criticized the Israeli government. It's a brazen, bald-faced lie. There are hundreds of reporters covering the Dem primary. Not one fact-check has been written.

twitter.com/NoahPollak/status/1103707467542814720

Notable: CNN’s Image of Manafort Judge Is a Federal Judge Who’s Been Dead Since 2006

CNN’s Image of Manafort Judge Is Actually a Federal Judge Who’s Been Dead Since 2006

https://lawandcrime.com/awkward/cnns-image-of-manafort-judge-is-actually-one-of-a-federal-judge-whos-been-dead-since-2006/

Notable: U.S. Supreme Court Rules That World Bank Can Be Sued

>>5564508

>>5564210

not bad, but it certainly looking like white hats are positioning to take control of the WB/IMF

don't forget this happened last week

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2019/03/07/699437482/supreme-court-rules-that-world-bank-can-be-sued

Notable: Top 5 Border Falsehoods Pushed by Congressional Democrats and the Media

Top 5 Border Falsehoods Pushed by Congressional Democrats and the Media

March 7, 2019

Illegal immigration is not compassionate. It’s inhumane, unjust, and cruel.

President Donald J. Trump

Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen spoke before Congress yesterday about the security and humanitarian crisis on our southern border. Acknowledging that such a crisis exists would make Democrats accountable for working with President Trump to solve it. Their leaders have already gone on the record to say they will not.

Instead, they hope to keep a lid on the ugly, painful truths behind America’s broken immigration system. It is important to set the record straight.

MYTH: There is no crisis at the border.

FACT: We continue to face a surge in illegal immigration that has brought the border crisis to a breaking point.

There has been a massive surge in illegal migrants arriving at our border, with more than 76,000 apprehended or deemed inadmissible at a port of entry last month—the most of any February during the past 12 years.

This fiscal year, U.S. Border Patrol has seen a 97 percent increase in apprehensions compared to the same time period last year.

Even before this recent surge, former President Obama called the situation at our southern border “a humanitarian crisis” as early as 2014.

MYTH: The problem at the border used to be much worse.

FACT: Today, we face an unprecedented number of illegal immigrants that loopholes prevent from being returned quickly to their home countries.

The makeup of illegal immigration has completely changed from previous years. Now, record numbers of family units and minors are arriving at our border, and legal loopholes force them to be released into the interior of the country. Human smugglers know this, and these criminal enterprises routinely exploit these loopholes to smuggle children across the border as leverage.

By contrast, in FY 2000, Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) apprehensions were primarily single adults and, as such, 95 percent of those apprehended were repatriated within hours.

Apprehensions of family unit aliens and Unaccompanied Alien Children (UAC) have surged by 338 percent and 54 percent respectively this year.

MYTH: A wall wouldn’t help because drugs are coming through ports of entry.

FACT: Not only do we not know the amount of drugs smuggled between ports of entry, but building the wall will help free up more resources to seize the drugs coming in.

Obviously, there are more drug seizures at ports of entry that are manned by security than remote areas of the border with limited law enforcement presence. That doesn’t mean drugs aren’t coming in between ports of entry.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/top-5-border-falsehoods-pushed-congressional-democrats-media/

Notable: Denver airport Braile result: 2903 [-21] -> 3/19 -> cornerstone

2903 [-21] -> 3/19 -> cornerstone.

Notable: Planefag Report: A Blackhawk over Richmond with FBI jet closeby going that way

A Blackhawk over Richmond with FBI jet closeby going that way - hmmm

Notable: Billionaire Jewish diamond trader dies during penis enlargement operation

top kek

Billionaire Jewish diamond trader dies during penis enlargement operation

Belgian-Israeli Ehud Arye Laniado, 65, suffers heart attack after unnamed substance injected during cosmetic operation in France

JTA — A billionaire Jewish diamond trader has died during a penis enlargement operation.

Ehud Arye Laniado had a heart attack after an unnamed substance was injected into his penis during the procedure Saturday at a private clinic in France, according to reports. Laniado, a Belgian Israeli, was 65.

He owned Omega Diamonds based in Antwerp and Mercury Diamond, a diamond pricing consultancy, and had been in the diamond business for 40 years.

In 2015, Laniado sold the world’s most expensive diamond, called the Blue Moon of Josephine, to Joseph Lau Luen Hung, a Hong Kong businessman and a convicted felon, for $48.4 million.

Omega Diamonds confirmed its owner and founder’s death in a statement.

“Farewell to a visionary businessman,” the statement said. “It is with great sadness that we confirm that our founder Ehud Arye Laniado has passed away. After living an exceptional life Ehud will be brought back home to Israel as his final resting place. He will be dearly missed by us all.”

Laniado was expected to appear in court in Belgium on March 14 to face tax evasion charges.

He reportedly entered the workforce as a masseuse working at the Hilton Hotel in Tel Aviv.

>https://www.timesofisrael.com/billionaire-jewish-diamond-trader-dies-during-penis-enlargement-operation/

If this is a cover story, absolutely brilliant.

Notable: The illegal immigrant health crisis by itself is enough reason to shut down border migration

HEALTH CRISIS

https://www.conservativereview.com/news/illegal-immigrant-health-crisis-enough-reason-shut-border-migration/

https://twitter.com/RMConservative/status/1103749030876725248

Notable: Candace Owens sums up Q's plan for AOC and Omar

https://twitter.com/RealCandaceO/status/1103744032830865414

muh joos

Notable: Lorain County Community College Announces Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation President Allan Golston as Commencement Speaker

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/lorain-county-community-college-announces-bill–melinda-gates-foundation-president-allan-golston-as-commencement-speaker-300808619.html

Lorain County Community College Announces Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation President Allan Golston as Commencement Speaker

Notable: Media Ignores, Mishandles Allegations Of Campaign Finance Violations By Ocasio-Cortez

Media Ignores, Mishandles Allegations Of Campaign Finance Violations By Ocasio-Cortez

Media outlets are largely ignoring or mishandling reports that Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her chief of staff were controlling a PAC at the same time the PAC was working to get her elected.

The Daily Caller News Foundation reported Monday that Ocasio-Cortez and her chief of staff retained control of the Justice Democrats PAC, which is credited with propelling Ocasio-Cortez to victory, while running to unseat incumbent Democrat Joe Crowley in 2018. Former FEC commissioners told the DCNF that if Ocasio-Cortez’s campaign was operating in affiliation with the PAC, the former bartender could be opened up to “massive reporting violations.”

The report also noted that Ocasio-Cortez and her chief of staff did not disclose their control of Justice Democrats to the FEC. Experts say it could be a felony if Ocasio-Cortez and her chief of staff knowingly and intentionally withheld this information to skirt campaign contribution limits. PACs and campaigns must share a contribution limit when being controlled by the same person or group of persons.

The media has ignored the explosive allegation, instead lumping it in with a complaint to the FEC that Ocasio-Cortez’s chief of staff funneled nearly $1 million from PACs he controlled to private LLCs that he also controlled. That complaint was outlined in a report by the Washington Examiner, but is a separate issue from the allegations laid out by the DCNF.

NBC News fact-checked the FEC complaint by the National Legal and Policy Center, reaching the conclusion that there is “no evidence of wrongdoing.” However, in their fact check, NBC falsely claimed that the DCNF said Ocasio-Cortez and her chief of staff could face jail time over the complaint. A former FEC official who spoke to the DCNF suggested they could face jail time over her legal control over the Justice Democrats PAC, not over the separate allegations made by NLPC.

NBC issued a correction on their fact check after an inquiry from an editor at the DCNF, but still did not accurately characterize the DCNF’s reporting.

https://dailycaller.com/2019/03/07/media-ocasio-cortez-fec-pac/

Notable: John Mayer launches foundation focused on veterans

https://www.columbian.com/news/2019/mar/07/john-mayer-launches-foundation-focused-on-veterans/

Mayer launches foundation focused on veterans

Notable: Barr meets Huber side by side

>>5564121

==Barr meets Huber

Notable: >>5564360, >>5564540 Resolution passed - 407-23. This resolution makes it hate speech toward every group except white individuals.

BAKER

Adding again from previous bread but adding link this time around and an update. Resolution passed - 407-23. This resolution makes it hate speech toward every group except white individuals. They literally just snuck in hate speech laws which protect every group except white individuals.

https://archive.fo/yaRbb

Notable: >>5564182 Syria update

SYRIA UPDATE

Syria categorically rejects conclusions of OPCW fact-finding mission about using chemical substances in Douma

“The fact-finding mission of the OPCW issued its report about an alleged incident of using toxic chemical substances in Douma on April 7th, 2018… in fact, what attracts attention now is that the authors of the report ignored the statements of witnesses who lived with that incident and described the allegations of using chemical weapons in Douma as a play performed by armed terrorist organizations,” An official spokesman at Foreign and Expatriates Ministry said on Thursday.

He added that the US, France and Britain, due to the failure of their policies in Syria that aimed to undermine its security, stability and territorial integrity, have worked to move their terrorist tools in Syria, mainly, the so-called “the white Helmets” to fabricate allegations of using chemical weapons in Syria.

“Later, they obstructed efforts to conduct investigations by the mission in Douma through launching a direct military aggression on Syria on April 14th, 2018 that destroyed scientific centers which include laboratories for peaceful purposes,” the official spokesman stressed.

https://www.sana.sy/en/?p=160471

People of occupied Golan renew utter rejection of Israel’s plan to implement wind turbines project

Since the occupation of the Syrian Arab Golan, the Israeli occupation authorities have systematically looted its natural and agricultural resources through hundreds of arbitrary and aggressive schemes and practices against people, land and history of the occupied Syrian Golan.

Today, the people of occupied Syrian Golan renew their utter rejection of the new settlement plan through the wind turbines project that the occupation intends to implement on the citizens’ properties and confiscating their lands by force on the pretexts of property documents.

They confirmed their commitment to their land which they inherited from their fathers and grandfathers thousands of years ago and registered in the Syrian real estate records and they will not give up.

https://www.sana.sy/en/?p=160467

Military Situation In Syria On March 7, 2019 (Map Update)

A brief overview of the recent developments in Syria:

Pro-government militias repelled an ISIS infiltration attempt near Taraba;

The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) delivered a rocket strike on positions of the Turkistan Islamic Party in Jisr al-Shughur;

The SAA shelling eliminated a Jaysh al-Izza HQ near Khan Shaykhun killing 7 militants, including a field commander;

Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham cracked down on an ISIS cell and captured an ISIS weapons depot in Atarib in western Aleppo;

The US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces continue their operation against ISIS in the Euphrates Valley. The ISIS resistance has been mostly overcome and terrorists are now surrendering to the US-backed force;

The operation to evacaute civilians from the Rukban refugee camp failed because of resistance from US-backed militants.

https://southfront.org/military-situation-in-syria-on-march-7-2019-map-update/

Syrian L-39 Warplanes Pound Militant Positions In Southeastern Idlib

The army’s airstrikes destroyed many hideouts, killed many terrorists, injured others and destroyed their weapons and equipment,” the SANA’s reporter said.

https://southfront.org/syrian-warplanes-pound-militant-positions-in-southeastern-idlib/

US Air Force May Have Employed Stealthy Avenger Drones In Syria: Report

The latest iterations of the Avenger, which are substantially larger than the original prototype, have a cruising speed of around 400 miles per hour, more than twice that of a Reaper, and a maximum flight time of around 20 hours, depending on what payloads it is carrying. In 2016, General Atomics also flew a new variant of the drone, called the Avenger Extended Range (ER), for the first time. The Avenger ER has since demonstrated an ability to remain aloft for longer than 20 hours.

They also have the ability to carry weapons, including laser-guided bombs, in their internal payload bays, as well as additional stores on up to six underwing pylons. The Avenger can accommodate various sensor turrets with electro-optical, infrared, and multi-spectral cameras, as well as laser designators, on a retractable mount. This allows the drone to operate in maximum stealth mode until it reaches the target area.

https://southfront.org/us-air-force-may-have-employed-stealthy-avenger-drones-in-syria-report/

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Notable: NASA Captures 'First' Images Of Supersonic Shockwaves Colliding In Flight

https://www.waaytv.com/content/news/NASA-captures-first-images-of-supersonic-shockwaves-colliding-in-flight-506836191.html

NASA Captures 'First' Images Of Supersonic Shockwaves Colliding In Flight

Notable: Q Clock Update

Q CLOCK UPDATE - RE-READ CRUMBS

Today's Q Clock :35

Facebook is listening to you 24/7/365.

[CHINA-CHINA-CHINA]

Do we use platforms whereby we collect followers?

Information should flow freely w/o costs.

Harness followers / profiteering (THEY).

Enemy at the front door.

Why 'all of a sudden' are people talking about the CLINTON FOUNDATION (including whistleblowers and hidden company established to investigate covertly (ex_ABCs))?

Today's :25/:55 Q Clock Mirror :15

Flood unstoppable.

Clinton Foundation conflicts of interest.

Pharma alliance.

Coordinated - the "Awakening."

Every scenario planned for.

DNC to initiate lawsuit (pre-planned).

How do we 'legally' ……..

Today's 180-Degree Q Clock Mirror :05

@Snowden

Cold?

How's the bunker these days?

Public: FBI/DOJ/O-WH/SD

Private: Clowns Clowns Clowns

What was just released to Nunes?

"A clean [H]ouse is very important."

THIS IS ABOUT SAVING AMERICA. WRWY N1LB FG&C WWG1WGA!

Notable: Chairman @LindseyGrahamSC reboots FISA probe with doc request to AG Barr.

https://twitter.com/IvanPentchoukov/status/1103775239392120832

Notable: Search underway for Wasilla-bound Cessna that was operating near Rainy Pass

https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/aviation/2019/03/07/search-underway-for-wasilla-bound-cessna-that-was-operating-near-rainy-pass/

Search underway for Wasilla-bound Cessna that was operating near Rainy Pass

Notable: Power outages in Venezuela

https://twitter.com/netblocks/status/1103778390216241153

Notable: Ralph Hall, oldest-ever member of US House, dead at age 95

https://www.fourstateshomepage.com/news/politics/ralph-hall-oldestever-member-of-us-house-dead-at-age-95/1833652319

Ralph Hall, oldest-ever member of US House, dead at age 95

Notable: General Flynn changed his T-banner again.

General Flynn changed his T-banner again.

Sun is higher now.

More LIGHT.

Notable: Tesla : enters into agreement with Chinese lenders for Gigafactory

Tesla : enters into agreement with Chinese lenders for Gigafactory

(so now we know why they gave Musk a Visa)

(Reuters) - Tesla Inc said on Thursday it signed an agreement with lenders in China for a 12-month facility of up to 3.5 billion yuan ($521 million) for the electric carmaker's Gigafactory in Shanghai.

The company broke ground on the factory in January, and a Shanghai city government official said on Wednesday that the facility is expected to be completed in May.

Tesla has said that the Gigafactory will cost around $2 billion.

Producing cars locally is likely to help the company minimize the impact of the U.S.-China trade war, which has forced Tesla to adjust prices of its U.S.-made cars in China.

Keeping prices in check will also help Tesla fend off competition from a swathe of domestic electric vehicle startups such as Nio Inc, Byton and XPeng Motors.

https://www.marketscreener.com/TESLA-6344549/news/Tesla-enters-into-agreement-with-Chinese-lenders-for-Gigafactory-28129931/?countview=0

Notable: Hussein Says America Can’t Handle A Crisis Without Him

Let's see if he can handle his own crisis in GITMO.

https://thedcpatriot.com/2019/03/07/obama-says-america-cant-handle-a-crisis-without-him/

Notable: "777" Mueller Report Tomorrow

"777" MUELLER REPORT TOMORROW

Tomorrow is exactly 777 days since President Trump has been in office.

Tomorrow the Mueller report is released.

Notable: Tim Cook changes Twitter bio name to Tim Apple after Trump flubs his name..

https://mol.im/a/6783697

Notable: Anon dug into Charles Ansbacher, the guy who was President of the New World Airport Commission that built Denver Airport

Dug into Charles Ansbacher, the guy who was President of the New World Airport Commission that built Denver Airport. He was a music conductor, his parents were psychologist, and he briefly was a part of the Carter Admin in the DoT.

His 2nd wife is MUCH more interesting: Swanee Hunt, from Dallas, daughter of an oil tycoon, member Council on Foreign Relations, an Ambassador to Austria during the Clinton Admin, and the big kicker, on staff of the McCain Institute.

Pics & links for sauce.

http://more.ppld.org:8080/SpecialCollections/ManuscriptCollections/admin/RecordListing.asp

https://www.mccaininstitute.org/staff/swanee-hunt/

Notable: Tesla Boss Elon Musk Offered Permanent Citizenship In China

Old but relevant in light of Sec Clearance review today

https://geekytamizha.com/tesla-boss-elon-musk-offered-permanent-citizenship-in-china/

Notable: >>5562294 Judge lifts order against Trump’s transgender military ban

https://twitter.com/NewsBreaking/status/1103760374153719808

Notable: U.S. State Department declines comment on Huawei suit

U.S. State Department declines comment on Huawei suit

March 7, 2019 / 3:48 PM / Updated 15 minutes ago by David Alexander; Editing by Mohammad Zargham

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. State Department declined to comment on Thursday on a lawsuit against the United State by Chinese telecommunications equipment maker Huawei Technologies, and said Washington advocates for secure networks that are free from undue foreign government influence.

“Regarding its litigation, I don’t have any comment on that because it’s pending,” State Department spokesman Robert Palladino told a news briefing.

“More generally …,” he added, “the United States advocates for secure telecom networks and supply chains that are free from suppliers subject to foreign government control or undue influence which would pose risks of unauthorized access and malicious cyber activity.”

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-china-huawei-tech-security/u-s-state-department-declines-comment-on-huawei-suit-idUSKCN1QO2K5

Notable: Small earthquake in NK. Nuke test or 'rod of god'?

Small earthquake in NK. Nuke test or 'rod of god'?

Notable: Scientists Want You To Get A Brain Chip To Make You Smarter; And Intelligence Agencies Absolutely Won’t Abuse This Technology Implanted In Humans

Scientists Want You To Get A Brain Chip To Make You Smarter; And Intelligence Agencies Absolutely Won’t Abuse This Technology Implanted In Humans

The next big evolutionary Orwellian technology is coming. Soon you will be able to implant yourself with a brain chip to be super smart, CBS Chicago reported.

Elon Musk has previously criticized humans at a conference in Dubai. He expressed that artificial intelligence would surpass human beings and that we would be irrelevant if we didn’t merge with machines. Musk plans to do this with his “Neuralink” product that can make anyone superhuman by connecting their brain to a computer chip.

“Neuralink” is designing a cranial computer interface or neural lace, although it’s unclear what types of products the company will develop.

The Wall Street Journal speculated that the first products could be advanced implants to treat brain disorders like epilepsy or major depression.

Electrode arrays and other implants are already being used to help the effects of Parkinson’s, epilepsy, and other neurodegenerative diseases – but only rarely, due in part to the dangerous nature of brain surgery.

“Over time I think we will probably see a closer merger of biological intelligence and digital intelligence,” Musk said.

“Your output level is so low, particularly on a phone, your two thumbs just tapping away,” he added. “This is ridiculously slow. Our input is much better because we have a high bandwidth visual interface into the brain. Our eyes take in a lot of data.

It’s not the first time that Musk warned about the dangers of A.I., previously describing it as potentially the greatest threat to the existence of human life and comparing intelligent machines to summoning a demon.

“You know those stories where there’s the guy with the pentagram, and the holy water, and he’s like Yeah, he’s sure he can control the demon? Doesn’t work out,” Musk said at a symposium in October 2014.

The science may seem a bit science-fiction, but Stanford University has already successfully created a brain-computer interface (BCI), BrainGate, and early BCI tech allows people with paralysis to type messages on a computer by picking out letters on a screen, Ars Technica reported.

http://www.thedailysheeple.com/scientists-want-you-to-get-a-brain-chip-to-make-you-smarter-and-intelligence-agencies-absolutely-wont-abuse-this-technology-implanted-in-humans2_032019

Notable: John Kelly reveals he would have worked for Hillary Clinton if she won

John Kelly reveals he would have worked for Hillary Clinton if she won

twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/1103749252751060992

'John Kelly reveals he would have worked for Hillary Clinton if she won, parts with Trump on wall

www.foxnews.com/politics/john-kelly-reveals-he-would-have-worked-for-hillary-clinton-if-she-won-parts-trump-over-wall

He would’ve been with her.

John Kelly, Donald Trump’s former White House chief of staff, revealed he would have been willing to work for Hillary Clinton had she beaten Donald Trump for the presidency in 2016.

Explaining his reasoning, Kelly said it would’ve been about putting “politics aside” and “governing the country.”

“If Hillary Clinton had won the presidency, and she had called me and said, ‘I really need a good chief of staff here,’ I’d have probably done it,” Kelly said during an event Wednesday at Duke University in North Carolina, according to NBC News.

The retired four-star general, who served as chief of staff from July 2017 until December 2018, told the audience in Durham it was the “least enjoyable job” he has ever had, but added it was also the “most important job.”

During the speech, Kelly also broke from President Trump on the issue of a national emergency at the southern border and the need for a wall.

“I think the whole national emergency thing right now is going to be wrapped up in the courts if it even really gets through Congress, which right now it doesn’t look like it will get through Congress,” he said, according to CNN.

“Thank God we have the courts.”

On the issue of the wall, Kelly said: “We don’t need a wall from sea to shining sea.”

He also pushed back on one of the president’s favorite claims that many immigrants trying to enter the country along the Mexico border are criminals.

“They’re overwhelmingly not criminals. They’re people coming up here for economic purposes. I don’t blame them for that,” he said.

Notable: John Kelly: Trumps border wall would be a 'waste of money'

I guess John Kelly is out in the open and showing what a mole he might've possibly been.

Ex-military guy see"s no need for a wall at the border despite DHS recommendations and the reality that 1 million more illegals are headed this way.

What….a…putz!!!

(((▪︎John Kelly: Trump's border wall would be 'waste of money'▪︎)))

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/433078-john-kelly-trumps-border-wall-would-be-waste-of-money

Notable: Gaza Needs ‘More Than Statements’ from UN to Stop Israeli Violence - Historian

Gaza Needs ‘More Than Statements’ from UN to Stop Israeli Violence - Historian

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights reproached Tel Aviv’s response to a UN report last week that found Israel had breached the human rights of Gazans in its response to protests there. However, a historian and activist told Sputnik Wednesday that ending Palestinian suffering requires action, not tepid statements.

Sputnik reported last week that the UN Commission of Inquiry's February 28 report found that, by using live ammunition to suppress the Great March of Return protests on the border between Gaza and Israel, Tel Aviv gave the Human Rights Council "reasonable grounds to believe that… Israeli soldiers committed violations of international human rights and humanitarian law."

Tel Aviv blasted the commission's findings, with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu saying, "The council is setting new records for hypocrisy and mendacity out of an obsessive hatred of Israel, the only democracy in the Middle East."

This prompted UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet to tell the UN Human Rights Council at a meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, Wednesday, that she was "disappointed to see the immediate dismissal of that report by Israel, without addressing any of the very serious issues raised. All parties concerned should exercise restraint as the date of 30 March approaches."

March 30 is known to Palestinians as Land Day, commemorating a mass strike that occurred in 1976 in response to the Israeli government's plan to expropriate roughly 5,000 acres of mostly Palestinian-owned farmland in Galilee. Six Palestinians were killed by Israeli police in those protests, according to the New York Times.

The Great March of Return protests began in Gaza on Land Day 2018, only the latest in what have become nearly annual protests on that day, although these have continued up to the present.

https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201903061073015870-Gaza-Needs-More-Than-Statements-Stop-Israeli-Violence/

Notable: Nunes: We’re preparing criminal referral for AG, ‘many crimes’ will be presented in coming weeks

House Intelligence Committee ranking member Devin Nunes claimed Wednesday that he and his Republican colleagues are on the verge of submitting a bevy of criminal referrals to Attorney General William Barr regarding everything from the FISA abuse scandal to the notorious Trump dossier.

https://www.bizpacreview.com/2019/03/07/nunes-were-preparing-criminal-referral-for-ag-many-crimes-will-be-presented-in-coming-weeks-730691

Notable: Fresh court battle could expose more details in Acosta's controversial Epstein plea deal

Don’t recall seeing this here today

“NEW YORK — A federal appeals court panel signaled Wednesday that it is strongly inclined to set in motion a process likely to expose more sordid details in the politically charged scandal surrounding Jeffrey Epstein, the wealthy financier and philanthropist whose relatively cushy plea deal on underage-sex charges a decade ago has become a political liability for Labor Secretary Alex Acosta.

Sparks flew during arguments before the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan as a lawyer for Virginia Roberts Giuffre, an Epstein accuser, repeatedly reiterated his client’s claim leveled several years ago that the Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz not only defended Epstein but also had sex with some of the women Epstein victimized.”

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/03/06/alex-acosta-jeffrey-epstein-plea-deal-1206753

Notable: White House pressures Republicans to vote against national emergency rebuke

White House pressures Republicans to vote against national emergency rebuke

https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/07/politics/national-emergency-vote-white-house-republicans/index.html

Notable: House Democrats to Vote THURSDAY on Resolution ‘Against Hate’

UPDATE: “It’s going to say that we are against bigotry, we are against prejudice, and against hate.”

twitter.com/seanhannity/status/1103750937796059136

UPDATE: House Democrats to Vote THURSDAY on Resolution ‘Against Hate’

www.hannity.com/media-room/update-house-democrats-to-vote-thursday-on-resolution-against-hate/

Democratic representatives are planning a Thursday vote to officially take a stand “against bigotry” and “against hate,” backing off an earlier resolution that explicitly condemned “anti-Semitism.”

Democrats = Party of HATE / KKK/ Anti-Semitism

Notable: Michael Jackson's body 'may be EXHUMED as 11 new accusers come forward'

Serial Child Molester

Michael Jackson's body could reportedly be exhumed after 11 new accusers have allegedly come forward.

The King of Pop died from a prescription drug-induced heart attack in 2009 aged 50, and according to Radar Online, his 'accusers' believe DNA samples would prove he was a “serial molester who abused prepubescent, disabled and terminally ill children over three decades”.

“There are at least 11 new victims who claim they were molested and even raped by Jackson when they were between the ages of seven and 14 – and the list is growing,” an insider told the US website.

The first episode of explosive documentary Leaving Neverland: Michael Jackson and Me aired last night.

In the four-hour special, Jackson's former child companions Wade Robson and James Safechuck allege he groomed them and sexually abused them before casting them aside for other boys.

Read more:

https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/michael-jackson-neverland-body-exhumed-14041454

Notable: Netflix chief marketing officer to leave

Netflix chief marketing officer to leave

(Reuters) - Netflix Inc said on Thursday Chief Marketing Officer Kelly Bennett will step down after seven years in the role, during which the online video-streaming giant's paid subscribers jumped five-fold to 139 million.

Bennett, who joined in 2012 after spending nearly a decade with Warner Brothers, was responsible for launching Netflix's popular franchises such as "House of Cards"​, "Orange is the New Black"​, and "Narcos".

"The past seven years have been the most rewarding of my professional life, and we are at the top of our game, which is why this was the right moment for me to retire," Bennett said in a post.

His exit comes when Netflix is investing billions of dollars on original content to fend off intensifying competition in the streaming space.

Bennett is the latest high-profile exit in the past one year. Finance chief David Wells stepped down in August, while communication head Jonathan Friedland left last June over an 'insensitive' comment.

Bennett, 46, will stay on for a transitional period until a new CMO is named, the company said in its post.

351.65 -7.96 (-2.21%)

Volume 4,714,048

Avg. Volume 11,237,956

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/netflix-chief-marketing-officer-step-175652797.html

Notable: Denmark police prosecute 14 over sharing Morocco hikers 'murder video'

Posted this over at the Nordic thread, but compiled some more sauces..

They trying to keep the truth hidden as usual..

Denmark police prosecute 14 over sharing Morocco hikers 'murder video'

https://sg.news.yahoo.com/denmark-police-prosecute-14-over-sharing-morocco-hikers-132334746.html

https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/07/europe/denmark-morocco-murder-scli-intl/

http://www.arabnews.com/node/1463201/world

https://punchng.com/police-prosecute-14-for-sharing-murder-video/

https://lowvelder.co.za/afp/701625/denmark-police-prosecute-14-over-sharing-morocco-hikers-murder-video/

https://www.nst.com.my/world/2019/03/467015/denmark-police-prosecute-14-over-sharing-morocco-hikers-murder-video

http://boards.4chan.org/pol/thread/205441122

https://voat.co/v/news/3080579

Dansk politi sikter 14 for å ha delt video av Marokko-drap

https://resett.no/2019/03/07/1dansk-politi-sikter-14-for-a-ha-delt-video-av-marokko-drap/

https://www.document.no/2019/03/07/dansk-politi-sikter-14-for-a-ha-delt-video-av-marokko-drap/

Notable: Former Uzbek government official and uzbek telecommunications executive charged in bribery and money laundering scheme involving the payment of nearly $1 billion in bribes.

a BILLION in bribes pertaining to Russia…this seems huge

Frmr Uzbek gov’t official & director of Russian telecommunications co. charged in bribery & money laundering scheme involving the payment of nearly $1 billion in bribes go.usa.gov/xEGZC

@TheJusticeDept @SEC_News

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/former-uzbek-government-official-and-uzbek-telecommunications-executive-charged-bribery

Notable: SEC scrutinizes fairness of stock exchange pricing.

Exclusive: SEC scrutinizes fairness of stock exchange pricing

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating whether the multi-tiered pricing system used by stock exchanges favors large brokers at the expense of small ones, according to a person familiar with the matter.

Under the current system, Wall Street banks and other massive traders get hefty rebates based on how much business they funnel to exchanges. The result of this complex and often opaque system is that big users can end up trading for free, or even get paid to trade, while small brokers pay substantial fees.

Most exchange operators, including New York Stock Exchange-owner Intercontinental Exchange Inc, Nasdaq Inc and Cboe Global Markets, have embraced the system in at least some of their exchanges to help boost volumes and fatten their bottom lines.

While the SEC has not launched a formal civil investigation, it is seeking information from the exchanges on the pricing system. If the SEC were to determine that the tiered structure is unfair, exchanges could be forced to simplify their pricing models, potentially costing them millions of dollars in fees.

SEC spokeswoman Judith Burns declined to comment. NYSE and Nasdaq declined to comment on the SEC probe into multi-tiered pricing.

Cboe said it offers different types of pricing tiers catering to all of its clients and that the tiers are the result of years of intense competition among exchanges.

"At this point, we do not have plans to change our pricing schedules," said Bryan Harkins, who co-heads Cboe's markets division.

More generally, exchanges say that fierce competition in the industry has resulted in tighter bid-ask spreads that benefit all investors.

The regulatory scrutiny is part of a broader effort by the SEC under Chairman Jay Clayton to improve transparency around exchange pricing and ensure it is fair and equitable as required under the Exchange Act.

rest at link

https://www.marketscreener.com/news/Exclusive-SEC-scrutinizes-fairness-of-stock-exchange-pricing–28129155/?countview=0

Notable: Meet new billionaire Jeff Rothschild, the engineer who saved Facebook from crashing.

Meet New Billionaire Jeff Rothschild, The Engineer Who Saved Facebook From Crashing

When Jeff Rothschild joined Facebook in 2005, he was old enough to be Mark Zuckerberg's father. At 50, the experienced entrepreneur who had already founded two successful companies seemed out of place, especially in khakis and a tucked-in shirt that did little to hide his age.

Nine years later, Rothschild is likely pleased with himself for agreeing to report to a then 21-year-old CEO whose workplace attire consisted of a hoodie and sandals. By FORBES' estimations he is the latest Facebook billionaire and is worth at least $1.2 billion.

FORBES estimates that Facebook's Vice President of Infrastructure Software holds more than 18 million shares of the Menlo Park, Calif.-based social networking firm. A financial form filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission when Facebook went public in May 2012, disclosed that the 59-year-old Rothschild held more than 24 million shares when the company made its Nasdaq debut.

"Since the earliest days, Jeff has been a linchpin for Facebook's technical success," said Chief Technology Officer Michael Schroepfer. "So much of the company's journey from being a humble start-up to becoming a truly global platform can be mapped back to his work and expertise."

Rothschild declined to comment for this piece.

Known as "J-Ro" around Facebook's campus according to sources close to the company, Rothschild was by far the oldest person to work there when he started. An experienced entrepreneur, he cofounded Veritas Software in 1988 (later merged with Symantec SYMC -0.68% in 2005) and gaming company Mpath Interactive in 1995 (IPO in April 1999). Zuckerberg was 4 when Rothschild started Veritas.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/ryanmac/2014/02/28/meet-jeff-rothschild-the-hidden-facebook-billionaire-old-enough-to-be-zuckerbergs-dad/#2ac6a6a655ed

Notable: Regina Dugan and her father started RedX.

Who is darpa's regina dugan's father who she started a business with…..REDX?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2014/08/13/watchdog-google-executive-broke-ethics-rules-while-working-for-pentagons-darpa/?utm_term=.24ba49d323b9

Notable: Democrat Sen. Sherrod Brown says he won't run for President in 2020.

Democrat Sen. Sherrod Brown says he won't run for President in 2020

https://fox45now.com/news/local/sen-sherrod-brown-says-he-wont-run-for-president-in-2020?fbclid=IwAR2g69FTZItYt_yczpxqb2oqngK0Uwf_S05IIs-oE6YFjAjAmLvJfGSmJvY

Notable: Heart attacks increasing steadily in Americans Under 40 - study.

Heart Attacks Increasing Steadily in Americans Under 40 - Study

Though heart attacks in the US overall are on the decline, younger adults are bucking the trend by having more, recent research scheduled to be presented at the American College of Cardiology’s annual scientific session later in March shows.

Americans under 40 are suffering more heart attacks, a study authored by Ron Blankstein, a preventive cardiologist at Brigham and Women's Hospital and associate professor at Harvard Medical School in Boston reveals. "It used to be incredibly rare to see anyone under age 40 come in with a heart attack — and some of these people are now in their 20s and early 30s," Blankstein told Medical Express for a report on the study. "Based on what we are seeing, it seems that we are moving in the wrong direction."

The study, which covered the years from 2000 to 2016, found that the rate of heart attacks among Americans under 40 increased by 2 percent per year in the past decade. Of the 2,097 heart attack patients under 50 tracked by the study, 20 percent were 40 years old or younger.

The study is the first to compare young (defined as ages 40 to 50) and very young (under 40) heart attack survivors, according to the American College of Cardiology, and found that despite their youth, very young heart attack survivors were as likely to die from a second heart attack, stroke or other related events as the older group in the study.

"Even if you're in your 20s or 30s, once you've had a heart attack, you're at risk for more cardiovascular events, and you have just as much risk as someone who may be older than you," Blankstein said.

A separate, related study by Blankstein found that 20 percent of heart attack patients under 50 also had diabetes, making it a strong risk factor in heart attacks. Diabetes was also a predictor of future medical events in young heart attack sufferers.

Known risk factors between the young and very young heart attack study groups, including diabetes as well as high blood pressure, high cholesterol, smoking and early heart attacks among family members, were similar, the researchers found. The very young heart attack group was more likely to use marijuana and cocaine, but drank less alcohol. The very young group were also more likely to have heart disease in only one vessel, indicating the disease was at an early stage, and were more likely to have suffered a rare form of vessel wall tearing called spontaneous coronary artery dissection.

https://sputniknews.com/science/201903071073044526-heart-attacks-under-40-rising/

Notable: Former KKK Grand Wizard David Duke endorses Ilhan Omar, “Most important member of the US Congress!”

Former KKK Grand Wizard David Duke Endorses Ilhan Omar, “Most Important Member of the US Congress!”

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/03/former-kkk-grand-wizard-david-duke-endorses-ilhan-omar-most-important-member-of-the-us-congress/

Defiant Ilhan Omar: ‘As long as I breathe I will continue to make people uncomfortable in the best way possible’

Notable: Should we trust artificial intelligence regulation by Congress if Facebook supports it?

Should We Trust Artificial Intelligence Regulation by Congress If Facebook Supports It?

Try to imagine for a moment a declaration from Congress to the effect that safeguarding the environment is important, that the effects of pollution on the environment ought to be monitored, and that special care should be taken to protect particularly vulnerable and marginalized communities from toxic waste. So far, so good! Now imagine this resolution is enthusiastically endorsed by ExxonMobil and the American Coal Council. You would have good reason to be suspicious. Keep that in mind while you consider the newly announced House Resolution 153.

Last week, several members of Congress began pushing the resolution with the aim of “supporting the development of guidelines for ethical development of artificial intelligence.” It was introduced by Reps. Brenda Lawrence and Ro Khanna — the latter of whom, crucially, represents Silicon Valley, which is to the ethical development of software what West Virginia is to the rollout of clean energy. This has helped make Khanna a national figure, in part because, far from being a tech industry cheerleader, he’s publicly supported cracking down on the data Wild West his home district helped create. For example, he has criticized the wrist-slaps Google and Facebook receive in the wakes of their regular privacy scandals and called for congressional action against Amazon’s labor practices.

The resolution, co-sponsored by seven other representatives, has some strange fans. Its starting premises are unimpeachable: “Whereas the far-reaching societal impacts of AI necessitates its safe, responsible, and democratic development,” the resolution “supports the development of guidelines for the ethical development of artificial intelligence (AI), in consultation with diverse stakeholders.” It also supports adherence to a list of crucial values in the development of any kind of machine or algorithmic intelligence, including “[i]nformation privacy and the protection of one’s personal data”; “[a]ccountability and oversight for all automated decision making”; and “[s]afety, security, and control of AI systems now and in the future.”

These are laudable goals, if a little inexact: Key terms like “control” and “oversight” are left entirely undefined. Are we talking about self-regulation here — which algorithmic software companies want because of its ineffectiveness — or real, governmental regulation? When the resolution mentions accountability, are Khanna and company envisioning harsh penalties for AI mishaps, or is this a call for more public relations mea culpas after the fact?

https://theintercept.com/2019/03/07/artificial-intelligence-facebook-ibm-ro-khanna/

Notable: Border crisis hearing: “It’s real. It’s serious. It is a threat.”

Border Crisis Hearing: “It’s Real. It’s Serious. It is a Threat.”

Commissioner for U.S. Customs and Border Protection Kevin K. McAleenan strongly rebuked claims by opponents Wednesday that the border is not a crisis. He said he “fundamentally disagrees” with those who called President Donald Trump’s national emergency a “fake emergency” and laid out a litany of statistics exposing the serious humanitarian crisis and national security implications for the United States.

McAleenan spoke after opening statements from Senate Judiciary Committee ranking member Dianne Feinstein, D-Ca, and Chairman Lindsey Graham gave their opening statements.

The issues discussed ranged from drug smuggling, penetration of drug cartels deep in the United States and the counternarcotics efforts being addressed by Department of Homeland Security and its divisions. McAleenan argued — with statistics to back his claims — that Trump’s request for $5.7 billion for border wall infrastructure is an absolute necessity as part of a comprehensive plan to address the crisis.

The growing humanitarian crisis took precedence as well. McAleenan spoke at significant length about trans-national criminal trafficking organizations, which he said are expected to make roughly $2.5 billion a year off of illegal immigration into the U.S. alone. He addressed the long journey of children being trafficked into the U.S. In one example, he spoke of children from Guatemala, who travel more than 1500 miles under gruesome conditions. Some of the children spend more than 30 days being trafficked and are subjected to physical, sexual abuse and in many cases have contracted infectious diseases that threaten their lives, he said.

It’s not a manufactured crisis. It’s not a cable television ploy. It is real. It is serious. It is a threat, Sen. Graham

https://saraacarter.com/border-crisis-hearing-its-real-its-serious-it-is-a-threat/

Notable: Elon Musk's security clearance is reportedly under review by the Pentagon.

lon Musk's security clearance is reportedly under review by the Pentagon

Finding source

Notable: Zuckerberg’s going down and there’s no stopping it.

Zuckerberg’s Going Down and There’s No Stopping It

Mark Zuckerberg’s Dilemma: Eventually Silicon Valley Will Fall…

The Silicon Valley monopolist Mark Zuckerberg, who controls the social media empire known as “Facebook” finds himself in an increasingly tough spot. Certain forces within the western political establishment want him to exercise his power more ruthlessly, but he realizes this could lead to his ultimate downfall.

The printing press, first invented by Koreans, was cultivated in Europe for the purpose of maintaining the feudal order, primary through its ideological vehicle, the Roman Catholic Church. Johannes Gutenberg’s printing press was used to print Bibles and indulgences. The new invention made the system in which Kings and Nobles ruled and owned the land based on divine right more functional.

For a brief period, the printing press remained in the hands of the Catholic Church. But it was only a matter of time before this monopoly was broken. Critics of the Catholic Church and the rising mercantile class soon got access to this technology and utilized it to oppose the feudal order. Soon, translations of the Bible were circulated, screeds criticizing the Vatican were distributed, and the Protestant Reformation swept through Europe. This began a long process that ultimately resulted in the overthrow of feudalism, and the rise of Industrial Capitalism in the western world, along with the liberal democratic political system.

To use stereotypically Marxian phraseology, by developing the printing press, the Catholic Church had “laid the seeds of its own destruction.” It is unlikely, however, that the Catholic officials who encouraged Gutenberg were aware of the ultimately suicidal implications of their actions. However, Mark Zuckerberg and other social media giants are most likely well aware of the historical precipice on which they are sitting. This self-awareness causes them to become increasingly nervous and inconsistent.

Who Invented The Internet?

Politician Al Gore was widely mocked for the phrase “I took the initiative and created the internet” which he stated during a TV interview, often misreported as “I invented the internet.” He was, however, referring to the fact that Silicon Valley emerged from strategic decisions made by the US intelligence community and political leaders during the Cold War. Huge covert efforts by the US government enabled California and corporations like IBM and Apple to sit at the center of the tech boom, and as a result, hold the purse and puppeteer’s strings in the post-Cold War “New World Order” that brought us the internet. The “social media” revolution that followed a few decades later, seemed to very much serve the interests of Wall Street and London in its early years.

In 2011, Jared Andrew Cohen played the role of a coordinator, ensuring that the Pentagon, Wall Street, and the Tech Monopolies all marched in lockstep to shake-up the Middle East. Cohen is the CEO of Jigsaw, previously known as “Google Ideas.” He is also a member of the key US Foreign Policy think tank, the Council on Foreign Relations, paid for by Exxon-Mobile and the Ford Foundation. He served as a personal advisor to both Condoleezza Rice and Hillary Clinton.

https://journal-neo.org/2019/03/06/ark-zuckerbergs-dilemma-eventually-silicon-valley-will-fall/

Notable: DIA Commie Chicano Muralist Leopoldo Tanguma makes an appearance in JFK files

DIA Commie Chicano Muralist Leopoldo Tanguma Makes an appearance in JFK Files

Nothing to see here anons. It's just a mural. Leo's sister was apparently dating a sugar daddy who was palling around with one Lee Harvey Oswald in March of 1963. Filed under subscribers to a Cuban communist periodical. Tanguma also attending Young Socialist rallies.

>>5558459 (/pb) Continued dig on Leo Tanguma.

>>5557700 (/pb) Good dig on DIA mural painter Leo Tanguma.

pdf

http://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/jfk/NARA-Oct2017/docid-32108133.pdf

Notable: What is Katharine Gorka doing at the Homeland Security Department? This group is suing to find out.

What Is Katharine Gorka Doing at the Homeland Security Department? This Group Is Suing to Find Out.

A liberal watchdog group is demanding answers about the work of Katharine Gorka, a top political appointee who serves as an adviser at the Department of Homeland Security. Prior to her appointment at Homeland Security, Gorka — whose husband is far-right media personality and former White House aide Sebastian Gorka — was known for her anti-Muslim rhetoric.

After Donald Trump was elected president in 2016, he named Katharine Gorka to his Homeland Security transition team. She later earned a permanent appointment in the department. Gorka’s LinkedIn page describes her as a “Senior Advisor for Policy,” but Homeland Security has been reluctant to explain exactly what her role is.

A spokesperson for the Homeland Security Department told the Huffington Post in 2017 that her work “includes efforts to address everything from global jihadists [sic] threats to domestic terrorists.”

On Thursday, a Washington-based nonprofit called Democracy Forward filed a lawsuit under the Freedom of Information Act seeking records related to Gorka’s exact role. According to the complaint, the group initially filed a records request in November and received an acknowledgement from Homeland Security, but the department has since failed to meet response times required by statute.

https://theintercept.com/2019/03/07/katharine-gorka-dhs-sebastian-gorka/

Notable: Mueller wants to withhold millions of documents from indicted Russian company.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/mueller-team-wants-to-withhold-3-2-million-sensitive-docs-from-indicted-russian-company

Notable: NSA Alcatrax Tweet.

Repost [lb]

Bread 7109

>>5560168

You can escape from #Alcatraz tomorrow, spend today visiting #NSA at #RSAC!

It's the last day to stop by and visit us at booth 1753.

>1753

twitter.com/NSAGov/status/1103725829924765696

>1753

Q Post 1753

Q Post 53

Notable: NSA-Cyber Command Chief recommends no split until 2020.

NSA-Cyber Command Chief Recommends No Split Until 2020

The commander of the nation’s top military cybersecurity organizations, the National Security Agency and U.S. Cyber Command, has recommended they split from each other next year, Defense One has confirmed. That’s another delay for an organizational change first planned for in 2016 and since slowed to allow officials time to sort out the authorities for the civilian agency and military command and ensure that both entities can perform well independently.

Gen. Paul Nakasone, who leads NSA and CYBERCOM, recommended to former Defense Secretary James Mattis last August that the split be put off until 2020, current and former intelligence officials told Defense One this week. Those officials believe the general’s recommendation will be accepted by Pentagon leaders, though Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan’s views are not known. A Pentagon spokesman said no official decision has been made. Previous reports have hinted at the timing without confirming a year. In December, Defense One filed a Freedom of Information Act request to the command for the information, which was denied on the basis that the information was “pre-decisional.”

Nakasone told the Senate Armed Services Committee last month that the decision how to split the organizations “remains with the secretary.”

Former Defense Secretary Ash Carter first floated the idea to split the agencies in 2016. They currently function under a “dual-hat arrangement”: the four-star head of CYBERCOM also leads the NSA. In the 2017 National Defense Authorization Act, lawmakers authorized DOD to split CYBERCOM from the NSA and elevate it to be the nation’s tenth unified combatant command, on par with Strategic Command, which controls nuclear weapons, and combatant commands for troops in various regions around the globe. The bill also authorized the creation of a new civilian director of NSA. But the split was only to occur if the defense secretary and chairman of the Joints Chiefs certified to Congress that the split would not hurt the command. Congress directed no timing for the split.

https://www.defenseone.com/technology/2019/03/nsa-cyber-command-chief-recommend-no-split-until-2020/155345/

Notable: New poll: Americans’ support for Israel declines to lowest point in a decade.

TY, baker. And can we get this added to notables? It was missed last bread

New poll: Americans’ support for Israel declines to lowest point in a decade

https://www.twitter.com/sl_cksp_ce/status/1103374192089677825

Notable: VOX publishes sixth hit piece on Q community.

revised re-post

VOX publishes sixth hit piece on Q community

Latest VOX headline:

How a conspiracy theory about Democrats drinking children’s blood topped Amazon’s best-sellers list: The algorithm rewards quick purchases and fervent reviews — not quality content

by Kaitlyn Tiffany 3-6-19

VOX's purpose is not to report, only to attack. The object is to shut down Q group and others like it by making Q community look ridiculous–really, like total LUNATICS–in the eyes of the public. This is not okay. To that end, below is a list of part articles and their authors published by VOX. Anons are invited to research both VOX and these authors to find out what and who are behind these attacks.

Article Excerpt:

The conspiracy theory QAnon — which started on 4chan in the fall of 2017, then bubbled up across Reddit, YouTube, Twitter, and the celebrity sphere — is now topping some of Amazon’s best-sellers lists, NBC News reported Monday.

QAnon followers claim to believe, among other things, that Hillary Clinton is the leader of a Satanic cabal that feeds on the blood of children and profits off sex trafficking, and that special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into the 2016 election is actually a ruse designed to cover up his close friendship and partnership with Donald Trump. The two are supposedly working together to take Clinton down and her various demonic helpers.

………..

https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2019/3/6/18253505/amazon-qanon-book-best-seller-algorvoc.cothm-conspiracy

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VOX'S track record on Q

VOX has a particular bad record when it comes to their Q coverage. Their articles are not only anti-Q but deliberately inflammatory:

Jane Coaston:

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/8/1/17253444/qanon-trump-conspir 2018-08-02

[Says Q group is the "scarily popular [and]…pro-Trump”]

https://www.vox.com/technology/2018/12/12/18136132/google-youtube-congress-conspiracy-theories 2018-12-14

[Focus on Pichai testimony and Frazzledrip]

https://www.vox.com/2018/12/31/18144710/conspiracy-theories-trump-2018-qanon-soros-false-flags, 2018-12-31

[Starts with the Hoover Dam story and goes downhill from there…]

Alvin Chang:

https://www.vox.com/2018/8/8/17657800/qanon-reddit-conspiracy-data 2018-08-08

“We analyzed every Qanon post on Reddit. Here’s who QAnon supporters actually are”

[You'll hardly recognize yourselves, anons….]

German Lopez:

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2016/12/5/13842258/pizzagate-comet-ping-pong-fake-news 2018-12-05

[Starts with story of Pizzagate shooter & goes downhill from there…]

Kaitlyn Tiffany:

https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2019/3/6/18253505/amazon-qanon-book-best-seller-algorithm-conspiracy 3-6-19

[Today's article; see CAPP]

Notable: Commies are indoctrinating our youth.

Anti-Trump image displayed in public school classroom; official says teacher wasn't engaging in political indoctrination

A T-shirt showing an image of President Donald Trump and the messages "NOPE" and "Vive la Rêsistance" was displayed in a New Jersey public school classroom, TapIntoRoxbury reported.

A student took the photo of the T-shirt hanging on a wall in the Roxbury High School classroom and shared it with Succasunna resident Laurel Whitney, who posted the image Sunday on a private Facebook page dedicated to Roxbury education issues, the outlet said.

"What do you all think about this hanging in a classroom in RHS?" Whitney asked on the page, according to TapIntoRoxbury. "I thought teachers were supposed to refrain from imposing their political views on students?"

Whitney said the photo was taken Feb. 13, WKXW-FM reported, which would mean the T-shirt had been displayed for weeks.

Roxbury Schools Superintendent Loretta Radulic said after a school board meeting Monday that a student gave the shirt to a teacher and that the shirt was taken down Monday as well, TapIntoRoxbury reported. Radulic added to the outlet that the teacher in question wasn't engaging in political indoctrination by allowing its display.

Whitney shares some history

Whitney said her son graduated from Roxbury High School in 2016 and had a political clash with the same teacher, WKXW reported:

She said her son, who is Jewish, was assigned a current events project on Israel using Al Jazeera as a primary source. Whitney said school administration ignored her emails pointing out what she said was the Middle East-based news organization's anti-Semitic language. She said her son ultimately redid his project so as not to fail the class.

According to Whitney, other parents have privately worried about the same teacher promoting his political views to students but are reluctant to go public with concerns because their children are still enrolled in school.

Whitney said after multiple complaints from her and other parents, "at this point he should be made an example of rather than defended by the superintendent."

What happened to the teacher?

Board President Leo Coakley said the issue was handled in executive session prior to the public portion of the school board meeting as it was a personnel matter, TapIntoRoxbury reported.

http://www.stationgossip.com/2019/03/anti-trump-image-displayed-in-public.html

Notable: Israel's elections committee bans leftist Arab-Israeli coalition from running.

Israel's elections committee bans leftist Arab-Israeli coalition from running

Balad-United Arab List and candidate Ofer Cassif disqualified while far-right politicians cleared to run

srael’s election committee banned a leftist Arab-Israeli coalition from running in parliamentary elections next month even as it approved two members of a far-right party who have been labelled as racist.

The Central Election Committee on Wednesday prohibited both the Balad-United Arab List and Ofer Cassif, a member of another Arab-Israeli party, Hadash-Ta'al, from candidacy in decisions that rights groups said were politically motivated.

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israels-elections-committee-bans-leftist-arab-israeli-coalition-running

Notable: N.C. sex trafficker gets 230 years, ordered to pay $608,000 restitution.

N.C. sex trafficker gets 230 years, ordered to pay $608,000 restitution

Robin T. Applewhite of Cumberland County, N.C., was sentenced on Tuesday morning in Cumberland County Superior Court to at least 230 years behind bars, but no more than 299 years, following his conviction on Monday for coercing women into prostituting for him.

He also was ordered to pay the women nearly $608,000 because he did not pay them when they were his sex workers.

A jury considered charges of human trafficking, promotion of prostitution and conspiracy involving six women, three of whom testified against Applewhite. On Monday the jury convicted him for charges involving the three who testified plus one who is deceased. The jury found him not guilty of the charges involving the remaining two women.

The jury also found Applewhite guilty of being a habitual felon.

Over the years Applewhite, 42, has had addresses in Fayetteville, Hope Mills and Spring Lake.

Kelly Twedell of the 5 Sparrows anti-human trafficking organization in Fayetteville attended the trial. In addition to the three victims who testified against Applewhite, Twedell said, two other women provided key statements: His wife, Samantha Rivard Applewhite, and a prior victim who spoke of other incidents outside the scope of the charges he faced in this trial.

Samantha Applewhite, too, faces charges in this case. She has arranged a plea bargain with the prosecutors in exchange for her testimony. Her sentencing date has not been scheduled, a prosecutor said.

Applewhite made headlines in 2013 and 2015 with arrests on human trafficking charges in Onslow and Cumberland counties. Twedell said the gist of the Cumberland County case against Robin Applewhite was that he forced the women to perform sex services for clients. He kept the money the women earned and he gave them drugs, she said.

Applewhite first contacted the women when he saw them advertising on Backpage, a now-defunct classified advertising website that once was a central location online for prostitution, Twedell said.

When Applewhite met the women and “he saw a vulnerability,” he took advantage of it, Twedell said.

For example, two women met Applewhite at a motel in Fayetteville, she said.

“He had a pill bottle in his hand. He shook it in front of them and said, ‘Hey, do you all need drugs?’” Twedell said.

A victim testified that the pills were “roxies,” Twedell said. That is a slang term for a form a version of the oxycodone opioid.

One testified she traded sexual services for the drugs, Twedell said. “And he said, ‘Hey, I’ve got more where this came from. I’ve got houses. I can put a roof over your head. We can make a lot of money,’” Twedell recounted.

“So they were recruited,” Twedell said.

Once the women were with Applewhite, Twedell said, he kept several locked in a basement. One, who testified she made $40,000 in a month, was kept in another house, Twedell said.

Applewhite advertised the women on Backpage and “he would arrange for dates” with the clients, Twedell said. He took them to hotels and sometimes had them service clients in his house in Spring Lake, Twedell said.

“Each girl said: In exchange for heroin, they would just turn over the money from the dates,” Twedell said. Prices were $100 for 30 minutes, $250 for an hour, she said.

“So they would come over, and come back from the dates, and immediately turn over all the money. So they never had any money,” Twedell said.

Applewhite got caught in March 2015 when one of the women broke out of the basement of the home in Spring Lake and ran for help. Further charges were levied in 2016 as investigators developed the case.

At his trial, which started in mid-February, Applewhite fired his lawyer and represented himself. So it was Applewhite, and not a lawyer, who cross-examined the women he victimized.

On Tuesday’s sentencing, Applewhite spoke on his own behalf.

http://www.spiritualvigor.com/2019/03/nc-sex-trafficker-gets-230-years.html

Notable: WH Tweet: "Today, President @realDonaldTrump and @FLOTUS will welcome Prime Minister Andrej Babiš and Mrs. Monika Babišová of the Czech Republic to the White House!"

Today, President @realDonaldTrump and @FLOTUS will welcome Prime Minister Andrej Babiš and Mrs. Monika Babišová of the Czech Republic to the White House!

CST

https://twitter.com/WhiteHouse/status/1103725756960649216

Notable: >>5559993 Twitterstorm over Illhan Omar's comments.

THERE IT IS! Reporter for the @TheHill says the @NRCC 'pounces' on Jim Clyburn's Ilhan Omar comments

twitter.com/TwitchyTeam/status/1103703965395505154

Notable: U.S. Household net worth fell by $3.730 trillion in fourth quarter due to stock-market volatility.

U.S. Household Net Worth Fell by $3.730 Trillion in Fourth Quarter Due to Stock-Market Volatility

https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-household-net-worth-fell-by-3-730-trillion-in-fourth-quarter-due-to-stock-market-volatility-11551978894

Notable: Inside the shady private equity firm run by Kerry and Biden’s kids.

Inside the shady private equity firm run by Kerry and Biden’s kids

March 15, 2018

Joe Biden and John Kerry have been pillars of the Washington establishment for more than 30 years. Biden is one of the most popular politicians in our nation’s capital.

His demeanor, sense of humor, and even his friendly gaffes have allowed him to form close relationships with both Democrats and Republicans. His public image is built around his “Lunch Bucket Joe” persona. As he reminds the American people on regular occasions, he has little wealth to show for his career, despite having reached the vice presidency.

One of his closest political allies in Washington is former senator and former Secretary of State John Kerry. “Lunch Bucket Joe” he ain’t; Kerry is more patrician than earthy. But the two men became close while serving for several decades together in the US Senate. The two “often talked on matters of foreign policy,” says Jules Witcover in his Biden biography.

So their sons going into business together in June 2009 was not exactly a bolt out of the blue.

But with whom their sons cut lucrative deals while the elder two were steering the ship of state is more of a surprise.

What Hunter Biden, the son of America’s vice president, and Christopher Heinz, the stepson of the chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations (later to be secretary of state), were creating was an international private equity firm. It was anchored by the Heinz family alternative investment fund, Rosemont Capital. The new firm would be populated by political loyalists and positioned to strike profitable deals overseas with foreign governments and officials with whom the US government was negotiating.

Hunter Biden, Vice President Joe Biden’s youngest son, had gone through a series of jobs since graduating from Yale Law School in 1996, including the hedge-fund business.

By the summer of 2009, the 39-year-old Hunter joined forces with the son of another powerful figure in American politics, Chris Heinz. Senator John Heinz of Pennsylvania had tragically died in a 1991 airplane crash when Chris was 18. Chris, his brothers, and his mother inherited a large chunk of the family’s vast ketchup fortune, including a network of investment funds and a Pennsylvania estate, among other properties. In May 1995, his mother, Teresa, married Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts. That same year, Chris graduated from Yale, and then went on to get his MBA from Harvard Business School.

https://nypost.com/2018/03/15/inside-the-shady-private-equity-firm-run-by-kerry-and-bidens-kids/

Cont. from images:

According to BHR internal documents, the Henniges deal included “arduous and often-times challenging negotiations.” The CFIUS review in 2015 included representatives from numerous government agencies including John Kerry’s State Department.

The deal was approved in 2015.

Notable: Marriott CEO apologizes for data breach unsure if China is responsible.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-cyber-congress/marriott-ceo-apologizes-for-data-breach-unsure-if-china-responsible-idUSKCN1QO217

Notable: Syrian L-39 warplanes pound militant positions in Southeastern Idlib.

Syrian L-39 Warplanes Pound Militant Positions In Southeastern Idlib

In the morning of March 7, three L-39 warplanes of the Syrian Arab Air Force (SyAAF) conducted a series of airstrikes on the town of Saraqib in the southeastern Idlib countryside, according to Syrian opposition activists.

The Aero L-39 Albatros is a Czechoslovakian high-performance jet trainer with offensive capabilities. The SyAAF has been using this type of warplanes in close air support and ground attack missions, since 2012.

According to the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA), the airstrikes targeted several positions, hideouts and ammo depots of Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), the former branch of al-Qaeda in Syria.

“The army’s airstrikes destroyed many hideouts, killed many terrorists, injured others and destroyed their weapons and equipment,” the SANA’s reporter said.

A day earlier, the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) destroyed a headquarters of Jaysh al-Izza in southern Idlib killing more than 7 fighters of the group. Later, the army shelled several positions of the Turkistan Islamic Party (TIP) in northwestern Idlib for the first time in months.

These new attacks by the SAA are likely aimed at deterring militant groups, who continue to violate the Russian-Turkish demilitarized zone agreement.

https://southfront.org/syrian-warplanes-pound-militant-positions-in-southeastern-idlib/

Notable: Georgia moves to ban abortions in presence of fetal heartbeat.

Georgia Moves To Ban Abortions In Presence of Fetal Heartbeat

A Georgia House committee approved a bill Wednesday that seeks to ban abortions after an unborn baby’s heartbeat is detected, marking a significant push to expand abortion restrictions in the state.

The House Health and Human Services Committee approved the measure by a 17 to 14 vote along party lines, The Associated Press reported. The bill makes exceptions in cases where the mother’s life is in danger. It also allows for abortions in cases of rape and incest, but only if a woman files a police report.

A heartbeat typically becomes detectable between six and nine weeks of gestation. Many women do not know they are pregnant at six weeks.

The bill’s approval comes after Republican Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp promised to pass the “toughest abortion laws in the country,” during a campaign stop, according to the AP.

“We know life begins at conception. I think that’s worthy of full legal protection,” said state GOP Rep. Ed Setzler who authored the bill. “Certainly we can come together and recognize if there’s a human heartbeat, that child’s worthy of protection.”

Those opposed to the bill argue it will contribute to more unsafe and self-induced abortions and put women’s health at large in jeopardy. “It’s extremely dangerous for lawmakers to presume that they’re better equipped than women and their health care providers to judge what is appropriate medical care,” said Dr. Melissa Kottke who sits on the Georgia OB-GYN Society advisory board, the AP reported. (RELATED: More Than 20 States Sue Trump Administration Over Title X Abortion Funding ‘Gag’)

The Missouri House also passed a bill on Feb. 27 banning abortions in the presence of a fetal heartbeat.

Arkansas, North Dakota and Iowa have passed similar heartbeat abortion bans but have faced injunctions and court orders preventing them from enforcing the bans.

https://dailycaller.com/2019/03/07/fetal-heartbeat-bill-georgia-abortion/

Notable: >>5559986 Former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen sues the Trump Organization, saying he is owed $1.9 million.

https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1103722563627335680

Former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen sues the Trump Organization, saying he is owed $1.9 million

Better Sauce.

Notable: Michael Jackson’s $2 billion empire in jeopardy after HBO revives decades-old child abuse claims.

Michael Jackson’s $2 billion empire in jeopardy after HBO revives decades-old child abuse claims

The recently premiered documentary ‘Leaving Neverland’, which has brought back child abuse claims against the late Michael Jackson, may jeopardize the billion-dollar estate that flourished after the singer’s death in 2009.

Since the singer’s death, the Michael Jackson estate has become a huge financial empire, with posthumous deals reportedly bringing in around $2 billion. Last year, Sony purchased Jackson’s share of EMI Music Publishing from the Michael Jackson estate for $287.5 million.

In the two-part documentary released by HBO, Wade Robson, 36, and James Safechuck, 41, describe their childhood experiences with Jackson in graphic detail, accusing Jackson of grooming and manipulating them and their families, and sexually abusing them.

The documentary, which premiered on the network on Sunday night, has evoked a wave of public anger across the world, with several radio stations in New Zealand and Canada dropping the King of Pop’s music from their playlists. Radio play provides a significant money flow for artists or their estates.

Child sex abuse claims also forced BBC Radio 2 to quietly delete the entertainer’s songs from their on-air stream, according to an earlier report by the Times. The newspaper claimed that the last time a solo Jackson song was aired on the station was on February 23. The allegations were denied by the radio station, which said that Jackson’s songs don’t feature on the playlist because it is for new releases.

https://www.rt.com/business/453254-jackson-songs-ban-billions-risk/

All about the shekels

Notable: Huawai is China's DARPA!

Huawai is China's DARPA!

Mobile phone maker Huawei spent 50 billion yuan on research and development last year, which was more than the budget of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, China’s largest government research organisation, the conference heard.

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/1922893/china-should-copy-americas-darpa-create-cutting-edge

Notable: Tennessee House of Representatives passes controversial bill banning abortion after fetal heartbeat is detected.

https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1103721485938630656

Tennessee House of Representatives passes controversial bill banning abortion after fetal heartbeat is detected

Notable: Breakup of EU ‘can’t be ruled out’ if Brussels tries to enforce pro-immigration policies - Orban.

Breakup of EU ‘can’t be ruled out’ if Brussels tries to enforce pro-immigration policies - Orban

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has said that a breakup of the European Union cannot be ruled out if one part of the bloc tries to impose pro-immigration policies on another.

Quoted on the Hungarian government’s website, Orban said he could see a danger of fragmentation within the European Union.

"If we are left alone and they do not force islamisation on us, Europe can continue to live as the club of free nations," Orban said, but added that if Brussels forces Hungary "to accept the UN migration pact or the European Commission's decisions so as to make us fit their own Western concessive policies, a breakup [of the EU] cannot be ruled out.”

On Wednesday, Orban welcomed recent suggestions by French President Emmanuel Macron about needed reform of the EU and said it could be the "start of a serious debate" about the future of Europe.

Orban said that Macron's proposal to reform the Schengen area policies and establish a common border force and EU asylum office are necessary — but whether Macron and Orban’s visions will align in reality is another question.

Orban has repeatedly butted heads with the EU over his reluctance to open Hungary’s borders to refugees, denouncing “Muslim invaders” and saying that no country should be forced to adopt imposed immigration policies or adhere to quotas set in Brussels.

Orban has recently come under fire for his "anti-Brussels campaigns" from the European People's Party, of which Orban's Fidesz is part. The EPP have even threatened to expel Fidesz over his frequent targeting of Hungarian-American billionaire George Soros and his use of anti-EU billboards.

Fidesz said on Thursday that the billboards attacking European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker would come down and be replaced by new ones showing Orban's plans to increase Hungary's birth rate.

https://www.rt.com/news/453272-breakup-of-eu-cant-be-ruled-out/

Notable: JP Morgan is quietly moving bank branches out of lower income areas.

JP Morgan Is Quietly Moving Bank Branches Out Of Lower Income Areas

Some of the biggest banks in the United States are quietly closing branches in low income areas, and nobody more so than the people's JP Morgan.

As one example, JP Morgan is shutting it outlet in Aberdeen, Washington, where it has just one branch. And now that the bank is going to be leaving the town, the closest Chase branch is going to be 40 miles away. This is part of a broader move that banks are making, as they shift their attention in the age of online banking to wealthier areas, according to a new Bloomberg article.

As this branch closes, JP Morgan is planning on opening 70 branches in the vicinity of Washington DC. Places like McLean Virginia, the 25th richest town in the US, will be getting a branch. This comes amidst a larger move from banks to shrink their vast branch networks, cutting back in "relatively poor neighborhoods". As online banking spreads, major banks have still claimed that serving all of their customers at branch locations is important, regardless of income - a requirement of the Community Reinvestment Act.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-03-07/jp-morgan-quietly-moving-bank-branches-out-lower-income-areas

Notable: Artificial tremor detected in North Korean mining town.

http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/nation/2019/03/103_264991.html#.XIFX6fFvbc4.twitter

Notable: Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein Delivers Keynote Address on FCPA Enforcement Developments.

https://twitter.com/TheJusticeDept/status/1103718133712470016

Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein Delivers Keynote Address on FCPA Enforcement Developments

Notable: Cardinal Pell's appeal process to begin in June.

Cardinal Pell's appeal process to begin in June

Melbourne, Australia, Mar 6, 2019 / 11:25 am (CNA).- An Australian court announced Wednesday that Cardinal George Pell's application for leave to appeal his conviction of sexual abuse will be heard June 5-6.

Pell, 77, was convicted in December on five counts of sexual abuse stemming from charges that he sexually assaulted two choirboys while serving as Archbishop of Melbourne in 1996. He has maintained his innocence.

It was the cardinal's second trial, as a jury in an earlier trial had failed to reach a unanimous verdict. The first jury were deadlocked 10-2 in Pell's favor.

Pell's appeal will by led by barrister Bret Walker, SC, who will be assisted by Robert Richter, QC, the cardinal's defense lawyer; Paul Galbally, his solicitor; and Ruth Shann, Richter's junior barrister.

The cardinal's appeal will be made on three points: the jury's reliance on the evidence of a single victim, an irregularity that kept Pell from entering his not guilty plea in front of the jury, and the defense not being allowed to show a visual representation supporting his claim of innocence.

The appeal document, The Age reported, says that “the verdicts are unreasonable and cannot be supported, having regard to the evidence, because on the whole of the evidence, including unchallenged exculpatory evidence from more than 20 Crown witnesses, it was not open to the jury to be satisfied beyond reasonable doubt on the word of the complainant alone.”

Pell is incarcerated at the Melbourne Assessment Prison while he awaits the results of a sentencing hearing, which will be announced March 13.

In December, a district judge overturned the May 22 conviction of Archbishop Philip Wilson for failing to report allegations of child sexual abuse disclosed to him in the 1970s, saying there was reasonable doubt a crime had been committed.

The judge, Roy Ellis, said acceptance of the accuser “as an honest witness does not automatically mean I would be satisfied beyond reasonable doubt that he complained to Philip Wilson in 1976 that James Fletcher had indecently assaulted him.”

The news of Pell's conviction has met with varied reactions. While many figures in Australian media have applauded Pell’s conviction, some Australians have called it into question, prompting considerable debate across the country.

Greg Craven, vice-chancellor of the Australian Catholic University, suggested that the justice process was tainted by media and police forces that had worked “to blacken the name” of Pell “before he went to trial.”

“This is not a story about whether a jury got it right or wrong, or about whether justice is seen to prevail,” Craven said in a Feb. 27 opinion piece in The Australian. “It’s a story about whether a jury was ever given a fair chance to make a decision, and whether our justice system can be heard above a media mob.”

Pell was ordained a priest of the Diocese of Ballarat in 1966. He was consecrated a bishop in 1987, and appointed auxiliary bishop of Melbourne, becoming ordinary of the see in 1996. Pell was then Archbishop of Sydney from 2001 to 2014, when he was made prefect of the newly-created Secretariat for the Economy. He served on Pope Francis' Council of Cardinals from 2013 to 2018. Pell ceased to be prefect of the economy secretariat Feb. 24.

https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/cardinal-pells-appeal-process-to-begin-in-june-22944

Notable: How the CIA made Google.

>>5559232

https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/how-the-cia-made-google-e836451a959e

For instance, in addition to the Highlands Forum, since 9/11 the Group runs the ‘Island Forum,’ an international event held in association with Singapore’s Ministry of Defense, which O’Neill oversees as “lead consultant.” The Singapore Ministry of Defense website describes the Island Forum as “patterned after the Highlands Forum organized for the US Department of Defense.” Documents leaked by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden confirmed that Singapore played a key role in permitting the US and Australia to tap undersea cables to spy on Asian powers like Indonesia and Malaysia.

The full name of Captain “Dick” O’Neill, the founding president of the Highlands Forum, is Richard Patrick O’Neill, who after his work in the Navy joined the DoD. He served his last post as deputy for strategy and policy in the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Defense for Command, Control, Communications and Intelligence, before setting up Highlands.

The Club of Yoda

But Clippinger also referred to another mysterious individual revered by Forum attendees:

“He sat at the back of the room, expressionless behind thick, black-rimmed glasses. I never heard him utter a word… Andrew (Andy) Marshall is an icon within DoD. Some call him Yoda, indicative of his mythical inscrutable status… He had served many administrations and was widely regarded as above partisan politics. He was a supporter of the Highlands Forum and a regular fixture from its beginning.”

Since 1973, Marshall has headed up one of the Pentagon’s most powerful agencies, the Office of Net Assessment (ONA), the US defense secretary’s internal ‘think tank’ which conducts highly classified research on future planning for defense policy across the US military and intelligence community. The ONA has played a key role in major Pentagon strategy initiatives, including Maritime Strategy, the Strategic Defense Initiative, the Competitive Strategies Initiative, and the Revolution in Military Affairs.

Andrew ‘Yoda’ Marshall, head of the Pentagon’s Office of Net Assessment (ONA) and co-chair of the Highlands Forum, at an early Highlands event in 1996 at the Santa Fe Institute. Marshall is retiring as of January 2015

In a rare 2002 profile in Wired, reporter Douglas McGray described Andrew Marshall, now 93 years old, as “the DoD’s most elusive” but “one of its most influential” officials. McGray added that “Vice President Dick Cheney, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, and Deputy Secretary Paul Wolfowitz” — widely considered the hawks of the neoconservative movement in American politics — were among Marshall’s “star protégés.”The Club of Yoda

But Clippinger also referred to another mysterious individual revered by Forum attendees:

“He sat at the back of the room, expressionless behind thick, black-rimmed glasses. I never heard him utter a word… Andrew (Andy) Marshall is an icon within DoD. Some call him Yoda, indicative of his mythical inscrutable status… He had served many administrations and was widely regarded as above partisan politics. He was a supporter of the Highlands Forum and a regular fixture from its beginning.”

Since 1973, Marshall has headed up one of the Pentagon’s most powerful agencies, the Office of Net Assessment (ONA), the US defense secretary’s internal ‘think tank’ which conducts highly classified research on future planning for defense policy across the US military and intelligence community. The ONA has played a key role in major Pentagon strategy initiatives, including Maritime Strategy, the Strategic Defense Initiative, the Competitive Strategies Initiative, and the Revolution in Military Affairs.

Andrew ‘Yoda’ Marshall, head of the Pentagon’s Office of Net Assessment (ONA) and co-chair of the Highlands Forum, at an early Highlands event in 1996 at the Santa Fe Institute. Marshall is retiring as of January 2015

In a rare 2002 profile in Wired, reporter Douglas McGray described Andrew Marshall, now 93 years old, as “the DoD’s most elusive” but “one of its most influential” officials. McGray added that “Vice President Dick Cheney, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, and Deputy Secretary Paul Wolfowitz” — widely considered the hawks of the neoconservative movement in American politics — were among Marshall’s “star protégés.”

Notable: Michael Cohen has sued the Trump Organization in Manhattan Supreme Court.

https://twitter.com/Emily_Saul_/status/1103714616486567936

Michael Cohen has sued the Trump Organization in Manhattan Supreme Court

Notable: Warner Bros. chair being investigated for sexual misconduct.

Warner Bros. chair being investigated for sexual misconduct

https://wlos.com/news/entertainment/warner-bros-chair-being-investigated-for-sexual-misconduct

Notable: Dan Bongino Tweet: "The Dems 2020 Platform."

The Dems 2020 Platform:

-Infanticide

-Anti-Semitism

-93 Trillion in Green New Deal Spending

-70-90% Marginal Tax Rates

-Gun confiscation

-Open Borders

-Government controlled healthcare

twitter.com/dbongino/status/1103708484657471489

Notable: Hidden tunnels below Alcatraz prison found.

Hidden tunnels below Alcatraz prison found

https://www.thecourier.com.au/story/5942188/hidden-tunnels-below-alcatraz-prison-found/?cs=10230

Notable: TLAIB: Steve Scalise ‘Steeped in Islamophobia’.

TLAIB: Steve Scalise ‘Steeped in Islamophobia’

twitter.com/seanhannity/status/1103704379234897920

A NEW LOW: Rashida Tlaib Accuses STEVE SCALISE of ‘Islamophobia’ for Condemning Anti-Semitism

www.hannity.com/media-room/a-new-low-rashida-tlaib-accuses-steve-scalise-of-islamophobia-for-condemning-anti-semitism/

Notable: Denver airport symbolism and links to BoA.

Outside Denver Airport

https://youtu.be/rStVqB_1G5c

Notable: Schiff introduces bill targeting Trump pardons.

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/433042-schiff-introduces-bill-targeting-trump-pardons

Notable: Continued dig on Leo Tanguma.

(/pb)

>>5557700 (You) Good dig on DIA mural painter Leo Tanguma.

Continuing the dig. Yep he's a Communist

In 1972 in Mexico City, Leo Tanguma met David Alfaro Siqueiros who significantly influenced his work. Siqueriros advised Tanguma to take his themes from American life and to avoid strictly folkloric material.

Who is David Alfaro Siqueiros ?

He was a Stalinist in support of the Soviet Union and a member of the Mexican Communist Party who led an unsuccessful attempt to assassinate Leon Trotsky in May 1940.

Notable: Nancy Pelosi attacks Republicans for being xenophobic just moments after she defended Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) latest anti-Semitic remarks by stating that Omar didn’t know what she was saying

>>5558280

>The Democratic Party Has Officially Normalized Anti-Semitism

=Nancy Pelosi attacks Republicans for being xenophobic just moments after she defended Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) latest anti-Semitic remarks by stating that Omar didn’t know what she was saying

twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/1103695822724591618

Notable: NP repeats Nadler.

>>5558035

Will this work out for ya anon?

Notable: Nancy Pelosi refuses to say if Ilhan Omar should apologize for her anti-Semitism.

>>5558211

>The Democratic Party Has Officially

Normalized Anti-Semitism

Nancy Pelosi refuses to say if Ilhan Omar should apologize for her anti-Semitism:

"She may need to explain that she did not, it’s up to her to explain. But I do not believe that she understood the full weight of the words" "Her words were not based on any anti-Semitic attitude"

twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/1103694235792891904

Notable: Inside Colorado's underground sex trafficking empire.

https://therooster.com/blog/human-highway-colorados-underground-sex-trafficking-empire

Inside Colorado's underground sex trafficking empire

SexSeptember 08, 2016 By Brandy Simmons

Whether it’s for sex or labor, labeled human trafficking or slavery, in 2016, human beings in this country still live and die toiling under force, fraud and coercion every day to fulfill criminals’ wealth, power and sexual fantasies. And it turns out Denver is a human-trafficking hub, a place where newsworthy, exploited little girls combine with forgotten boys to make up a roughly $40 million industry. The state — and nation — face even larger-scale labor trafficking issues, but a comprehensive, collective approach appears to be gaining steam in Colorado.

In the last 11 years, the FBI’s Innocence Lost National Initiative brought together more than 400 law-enforcement agencies nationwide to collaborate with communities to recover and assist more than 3,400 children, 74 through the Rocky Mountain Innocence Lost Task Force in 2014 (when the data was retreived) alone, said Denver Police Sgt. Dan Steele, who supervises the Rocky Mountain program. The initiative resulted in roughly 1,450 convictions, according to the FBI. That’s huge.

Unprecedented, really, and those numbers continue to grow as states adopt stronger, clearer anti-trafficking laws designed to serve victims and survivors.

The Polaris Project, which rates states based on 10 types of laws that affect these cases, bumped Colorado from a tier-four rating to tier one when Colorado joined 36 other states that passed new trafficking laws and revised trafficking language in 2014.

“Previously, that language was problematic because it was not consistent with the federal definition,” says Amanda Finger, co-founder of The Laboratory to Combat Human Trafficking. “This law this year was much more comprehensive than past laws have been. It brought forward a council appointed by the governor to focus more state-wide on responding to this issue. It also addressed other areas of cleanup, such as rape shield laws so victims or potential victims of sex trafficking will be protected from (prosecutors) bringing in their past sexual history.”

Human trafficking stands as one of few issues in this country nobody can call “polarizing.” It’s fucking horrible. The end. That the people we sell here in the United States think their circumstances are normal, are terrified to leave or don’t know they’re victims or survivors, believing the abuse better than the alternatives, doesn’t make this acceptable, it makes it human trafficking. By most definitions, it’s modern slavery.

And it’s up to communities working in tandem to refocus and actually address this issue from a victim- and survivor-centered standpoint across the board, in mindset as well as law, says Brad Riley, founder of iEmpathize, a crimes-against-children non-profit out of Boulder.

“When you’re arresting a 14-year-old on a prostitution charge, it’s a contradiction,” says Riley. “They’re not prostitutes. They are being sold, and by federal definition, they’re not prostitutes. But the fact that law enforcement still sees them as that or girls still get arrested on that charge, those things need to shift.”

No human, legally aged or not, American or here for a better life, deserves to work under force, fraud or coercion without basic rights to food, a fair wage, family security and dignity. Americans collectively agreed to and purport to uphold an amendment, the 13th, stating as much.

No 13-year-old girl — the average age of recruitment for a female prostitute — or 12-year-old boy dreams of becoming a prostitute, raped 20 to 48 times a night. A few years after recruitment, these typically sexually abused and/or displaced teens look like pros, exactly like that hooker from spring break. Seven years after recruitment, studies show he or she will most likely be dead.

“Regardless of what we see on TV or what some people actually experience in real life, for the vast majority of the people in that industry, it’s not an easy life,” says Steele. “There’s a lot of victimization, whether it’s rape, beatings, torture, you name it. … It’s a pretty bad environment, so isn’t it pretty reasonable to assume maybe people are being forced or coerced to be in it rather than volunteering to be in it?”

They’re sold on a circuit from south to north to the coastal west and everywhere in between, says Steele, from Denver to Cheyenne to northern oil fields to Salt Lake to Vegas, south into the border circuit, even into Kansas and Nebraska.

Notable: Bacteria that ‘eat pollution’ and emit electricity captured in hot springs for first time.

Bacteria that ‘eat pollution’ and emit electricity captured in hot springs for first time

Scientists hope 'electrogenic' microbes could one day be used to power devices

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/bacteria-electricity-pollution-hot-springs-yellowstone-national-park-a8812016.html

Tiny creatures that can “eat” pollution and generate electricity in the process have been captured for the first time.

Scientists trekked into the depths of Yellowstone National Park to extract these bacteria, which are adapted to living in geysers and hot springs that can reach over 90C.

The so-called “electrogenic” microbes were targeted due to their ability to produce power, which experts hope could be harnessed in the future to drive devices.

However, publishing their findings in the Journal of Power Sources, the scientists admitted this could be tricky because of the extreme environments the bacteria lives in, which is why they had to test their abilities in the field.

“This was the first time such bacteria were collected in situ in an extreme environment like an alkaline hot spring,” said Abdelrhman Mohamed, a PhD student at Washington State University who led the research.

The worlds biggest problems are really not that big.

Notable: Lawrence Argent also NAPA> SHANGHAI.

>>5558112

Lawrence Argent also NAPA> SHANGHAI

Notable: The Democratic Party has officially normalized anti-Semitism.

The Democratic Party Has Officially Normalized Anti-Semitism

thefederalist.com/2019/03/07/democratic-party-has-normalized-anti-semitism/#.XIFDJBrc8vU.twitter

twitter.com/seanmdav/status/1103690144694132737

Notable: Scientists want you to get a brain chip to make you smarter.

Scientists Want You To Get A Brain Chip To Make You Smarter; And Intelligence Agencies Absolutely Won’t Abuse This Technology Implanted In Humans

The next big evolutionary Orwellian technology is coming. Soon you will be able to implant yourself with a brain chip to be super smart, CBS Chicago reported.

Elon Musk has previously criticized humans at a conference in Dubai. He expressed that artificial intelligence would surpass human beings and that we would be irrelevant if we didn’t merge with machines. Musk plans to do this with his “Neuralink” product that can make anyone superhuman by connecting their brain to a computer chip.

“Neuralink” is designing a cranial computer interface or neural lace, although it’s unclear what types of products the company will develop.

The Wall Street Journal speculated that the first products could be advanced implants to treat brain disorders like epilepsy or major depression.

Electrode arrays and other implants are already being used to help the effects of Parkinson’s, epilepsy, and other neurodegenerative diseases – but only rarely, due in part to the dangerous nature of brain surgery.

“Over time I think we will probably see a closer merger of biological intelligence and digital intelligence,” Musk said.

“Your output level is so low, particularly on a phone, your two thumbs just tapping away,” he added. “This is ridiculously slow. Our input is much better because we have a high bandwidth visual interface into the brain. Our eyes take in a lot of data.

https://www.activistpost.com/2019/03/scientists-want-you-to-get-a-brain-chip-to-make-you-smarter-and-intelligence-agencies-absolutely-wont-abuse-this-technology-implanted-in-humans.html

Notable: Lockheed Darpa recent news dig.

Lockheed Darpa recent news dig:

Air Force eyes chip-scale lidar sensors for 3-D mapping, navigation, and long-range communications - militaryaerospace.com/articles/2019/03/lidar-chip-scale-sensors.html

autonomous helicopter - theverge.com/transportation/2019/3/5/18250996/sikorsky-autonomous-helicopter-flying-taxi-lockheed

A.I. in MIL: proshareng.com/news/Tech%20Trends/Artificial-Intelligence-in-the-Military-–-An-Overview-of-Capabilities/44117

all in last 15 days

Notable: DoJ coordinates largest-ever nationwide elder fraud sweep.

Barr gettin shit done!!

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-coordinates-largest-ever-nationwide-elder-fraud-sweep-0

Notable: Corey Lewandowski: Nadler's investigation is a taxpayer-funded contribution to the 2020 Democratic candidate.

Corey Lewandowski: Nadler's investigation is a taxpayer-funded contribution to the 2020 Democratic candidate

www.foxnews.com/opinion/corey-lewandowski-nadlers-investigation-is-a-taxpayer-funded-contribution-to-the-2020democratic-candidate

twitter.com/CLewandowski_/status/1103686191352815616

Notable: Good dig on DIA mural painter Leo Tanguma.

>>5556928 (/pb)

>Do we know the artist who drew those denver airport murals?

Looks like a radical socialist Chicano that wants reparations. Leo Tanguma participated in the Chicano movement which is the Mexican version of the Black Power movement.

Black Panthers = Chicano

There's those Communists again. Seems like 9 out of 10 digs wind up with a communist connect usually in Chicago or Clowns.

http://www.zingmagazine.com/drupal/node/2039

Can you walk me through some of the imagery of your murals? Who are the people in the background?

Many of them are real people. This is an anonymous community and an anonymous community can be anybody. In this here, there are the symbols of oppression that our [Chicano] community has overcome. Are you familiar with that figure?

points to a stylized figure with three faces on drafting work for his mural, “The Torch of Quetzalcoatl,” commissioned by the Denver Art Museum

No.

Well it means the fusion of the Spanish and the English when the Spanish came and brought women and began to rape and marry the indigenous women and introduced a new breed called, mestizo. And so that’s the essence of our identity.

And this figure, this is La Llorona, the weeping woman who destroyed her own children after having married a Spaniard, a conquistador. The Spaniard at one point decides to go back to Spain and to take the children with him. Well, that drives the woman mad because to them Spain was like Mars to us or someplace really distant and remote. The legend says that she drowned her children so that the husband wouldn’t take them to Spain, away from the New World. In my mural, I make La Llorona find her children because we get these stories from the Spanish historians and they had a very prejudicial view of the native peoples, that they were less than human, and we get a lot of our folklore from the Spanish males. In my mural she is shown reuniting with her children and it is a very happy occasion

Social Justice Warrior

Artist Statement

​

From poor rural areas to urban barrios, public schools, prisons, universities, museums and many other places, I have tried to paint relevant and meaningful murals for the community.

My upbringing by farm-worker parents with their values and religious beliefs, as well as my later participation in the Chicano Movement, inspired me to paint murals for more than forty years. Studying under African-American professor and muralist Dr. John Biggers at Texas Southern University in Houston increased my understanding of and ability to paint murals. I was also fortunate to meet the Mexican mural master David Alfaro Siqueiros, who inspired me to paint about social issues in the U.S.

In 1973, I developed a concept for sculptural free-standing murals, which can be transported and exhibited in many places. This has proven to be very effective in conveying mural messages, as their very shapes and structural configurations excite and inspire mural spectators. I involve youth and community members in planning, constructing, priming and texturizing the mural panels. The unusual shapes stimulate greater interest in participants to internalize the mural theme and its meaning and share this with others.

A key element found in my work is the struggle for human liberation and democracy. This refers to dehumanizing conditions oppressed people strive to overcome, such as poverty and homelessness in our cities, the destruction of the environment, racism and exploitation, or any other unjust conditions.

These issues, in my opinion, should be addressed by artists.

-Leo Tanguma

https://www.leotangumachicanomuralist.com/

Notable: NASA plans to read terrorist's minds at airports.

>>5557168

>>5557055 Why You Should Be Worried About Machines Reading Your Emotions

Spacemen can read minds?

Letter to The Washington Times

Tuesday, August 20, 2002

I did not know whether to laugh or be in shock after reading "NASA plans to read minds at airports" (Page 1, Saturday). As a neuroscientist, I think this idea sounds incredibly far-fetched based on our current, at least published, scientific knowledge of measuring and interpreting brain activity and how it relates to human behavior.

However, the fact that this program exists should raise serious concerns about the long-term motives of those who wish to impose such Orwellian measures on the citizens of our open and free society. Though I should not have to elaborate on why such ideas clearly undermine the very principles on which our great country was founded, I will remind readers that sacrificing our hard-won liberties for so-called "security" only gives victory to the terrorists in their war against freedom. To paraphrase Benjamin Franklin, those who give away essential freedoms for temporary security will eventually lose both and deserve neither.

NASA plans to read terrorist's minds at airports

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2002/aug/17/20020817-040807-9284r/

Notable: Bongino Tweet: "Astonishing! Said no common sense conservative ever."

Astonishing! Said no common sense conservative ever.

twitter.com/dbongino/status/1103671392422322178

Notable: Catalan Parl't to create commission to probe Spanish Royal family members.

Catalan Parl't to Create Commission to Probe Spanish Royal Family Members

The commission is expected to investigate actions taken by people associated with the royal family, including actions aimed at the forcible movement of legal addresses of banks, large enterprises and transnational corporations outside the territory of Catalonia. In particular, it will cover the period after the independence referendum in Catalonia on 1 October 2017.

The commission will also deal with corruption structures related to the royal family, as well as accounts of former Spanish King Juan Carlos I in Swiss banks.

The issue of possible corruption schemes of Juan Carlos I arose in July 2018, after records of private conversations of his alleged former mistress Corinna zu Sayn-Wittgenstein were published by media.

According to her, the ex-monarch used her as a front person for registration of real estate. Corinna also said that Juan Carlos I has accounts in Swiss banks. According to Corinna, the reason why the ex-king registered the property on her name was related to her place of residence — Monaco, where no property declaration is submitted.

Sorry if so much text

Notable: Head of PM’s Office: Migration ‘central theme’ in EP election.

Head of PM’s Office: Migration ‘central theme’ in EP election

Migration is the “most important topic” for the upcoming European parliamentary elections, Gergely Gulyás, the head of the Prime Minister’s Office, told a press conference on Thursday. Concerning migration with regard to Hungary, Gulyás said that Hungary’s border control prevents masses of migrants from attempting to enter the country illegally. “Since the border fence was built migrants have avoided Hungary, but if the government changed its policy, Hungary would be a migrant destination just the same,” he insisted. On another subject, Gulyás said that Hungary’s ruling Fidesz wants to stay a member of the European People’s Party (EPP). He said “attacks” against Fidesz from within the EPP had come “exclusively from parties that had supported mandatory migrant quotas” but added that “those parties are also important EPP members” and that “the EPP embraces many different opinions”.

https://dailynewshungary.com/head-of-pms-office-migration-central-theme-in-ep-election/

Notable: US Marines Tweet: "Final Flight"

Final Flight

twitter.com/USMC/status/1103641448677699585

Notable: Spreadsheet update.

Spreadsheet is updated to post >>5553520

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Efm2AcuMJ7whuuB6T7ouOIwrE_9S-1vDJLAXIVPZU2g/edit?usp=sharing

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Notable: Clapper was sent surveillance question before hearing.

https://twitter.com/mitchellvii/status/1103677715864055808

Notable: About 120 members of the Connecticut Army National Guard deploying to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - About 120 members of the Connecticut Army National Guard deploying to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to serve for a year at the U.S. military detention center.

A send-off ceremony took place on Tuesday in Hartford for the 643rd Military Police Company, which is embarking on its first mission to Cuba.

The unit's last overseas mission came in 2006 when it spent more than a year in Germany. It is expected to leave in mid-March for training at a U.S. Army post in Texas before deploying to Guantanamo.

Another Connecticut unit, the 192nd Military Police Battalion, deployed on a similar mission to Guantanamo in 2015.

https://www.wtnh.com/news/military/connecticut-national-guard-unit-to-deploy-to-guantanamo-bay/1825860166?fbclid=IwAR10IeLETVuU1XjLjwV6nY54LSs4OhlPj2z-uf2pkQVEpRDqLUqpAtP16x8

Notable: Google discusses ‘steering’ the Conservative movement.

LEAKED AUDIO: Google Discusses ‘Steering’ the Conservative Movement

Google’s senior director of U.S. public policy, Adam Kovacevich appeared to describe the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) as a “sideshow Circus,” in a leaked audio recording in which he also argued that Google should remain a sponsor of the conference to “steer” the conservative movement “away from nationalistic and incendiary comments.” The comments came to light in leaked audio files allegedly of a company-wide meeting at Google, part of which is now exclusively reported by Breitbart News. Another part of the transcript was released last Friday on Tucker Carlson Tonight, while further snippets revealing Google’s funding of establishment conservative think-tanks were published by the left-leaning tech magazine Wired in December.

The alleged meeting took place in the wake of Google’s sponsorship of CPAC in 2018, which triggered an internal rebellion from left-wing employees of the tech giant. Breitbart News exclusively reported on the revolt at the time, in which radical left-wingers inside Google accused CPAC of “ethno-nationalism” and “hate.”

Google has not denied the authenticity of the leaked material. In the clips, the transcripts of which posted in full below, Kovacevich portrayed CPAC as a conference with a “dual identity,” one being a “premier gathering” that features a “whole swath of conservatives,” including “national security conservatives, economic conservatives, libertarians, the Log Cabin Republicans, deficit hawks, small government advocates.” In the audio clip, the other side of CPAC was described in disparaging terms by Kovacevich as featuring a “sideshow circus-like element” which “CPAC organizers have intentionally cultivated sometimes, inviting outrageous figures that say incendiary and offensive things, I think in order to draw more attention and controversy to the conference.”

“I want to be clear that we don’t agree with those things, right?” continued Kovacevich. “We abhor and rebuke the offensive things that are said at the conference. Those things obviously don’t align with Google’s values and our approach.” “And I think it’s challenging for us to reconcile those two identities of CPAC.”

In another audio clip of the same conversation provided to Breitbart News, Kovacevich appeared to describe the importance of reaching out to conservatives in order to counter conservative media, including Breitbart News. Kovacevich warned of “growing negative attention from the conservative media which is influential among those same Republicans who control government.” He went on to accuse conservative media of “pushing the storyline that Google is biased against conservatives.” “And of course we aim to build products for everyone but if that notion becomes accepted among conservative and Republican policymakers, that could be harmful to our mission of building products for everyone.”

https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2019/03/07/leaked-audio-google-discusses-steering-the-conservative-movement/

Notable: Why you should be worried about machines reading your emotions.

Why You Should Be Worried About Machines Reading Your Emotions

Reading emotions is akin to phrenology, or reading the bumps on your head to predict mental traits. Both are based on simplistic and faulty assumptions which could falsely scar an individual for life. ⁃ TN Editor

Could a program detect potential terrorists by reading their facial expressions and behavior? This was the hypothesis put to the test by the US Transportation Security Administration (TSA) in 2003, as it began testing a new surveillance program called the Screening of Passengers by Observation Techniques program, or Spot for short.

While developing the program, they consulted Paul Ekman, emeritus professor of psychology at the University of California, San Francisco. Decades earlier, Ekman had developed a method to identify minute facial expressions and map them on to corresponding emotions. This method was used to train “behavior detection officers” to scan faces for signs of deception.

But when the program was rolled out in 2007, it was beset with problems. Officers were referring passengers for interrogation more or less at random, and the small number of arrests that came about were on charges unrelated to terrorism. Even more concerning was the fact that the program was allegedly used to justify racial profiling.

Ekman tried to distance himself from Spot, claiming his method was being misapplied. But others suggested that the program’s failure was due to an outdated scientific theory that underpinned Ekman’s method; namely, that emotions can be deduced objectively through analysis of the face.

https://www.technocracy.news/why-you-should-be-worried-about-machines-reading-your-emotions/

Notable: Dem Senator rips CNN hack James Clapper: “He needs to stop making excuses for lying” (video)

Brutal: Dem Senator Rips CNN Hack James Clapper: “He Needs to Stop Making Excuses for Lying” (VIDEO)

Democrat Senator Ron Wydon (D-OR) ripped CNN contributor and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper on Wednesday for continuing to lie about his famous lie to the American public.

In March 2013 Director of National Intelligence James Clapper went before the US Senate and lied about government spying. Senator Ron Wydon asked Clapper if the NSA collects any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of millions of Americans? Director Clapper replied, “No, sir … not wittingly.”

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/03/brutal-dem-senator-rips-cnn-hack-james-clapper-he-needs-to-stop-making-excuses-for-lying-video/

Notable: 129 year old warning about the Democratic party from a dear friend of Abraham Lincoln.

129 year old warning about the Democratic party from a dear friend of Abraham Lincoln

http://www.madnesshub.com/2019/03/129-year-old-grave-warning-about.html

“Through this inscription I wish to enter my dying protest against what is called the Democratic party I have watched it closely since the days of Jackson and know that all the misfortunes of our nation has come to it through this so called party therefore beware of this party of treason.

Put on in fulfillment of promise to Deceased. Reprinted as posted on one side of the monument of N. Grigsby.”

Notable: Peruvian farmers abandoning coffee plantations for coca fields.

Peruvian Farmers Abandoning Coffee Plantations for Coca Fields

A drop in coffee prices is forcing hundreds of Peruvian farmers to seek work in coca plantations-a sign that the country, like its neighbor Colombia, is seeing a boom in coca cultivation.

A report by the Association of Exporters (ADEX) notes that although coffee production increased by 6 percent in Peru between January and November of 2018, the total value of the exported goods decreased by 6 percent. This is directly attributed to low prices in the international market and obstacles in the consolidation of sales contracts.

https://www.insightcrime.org/news/brief/peru-coffee-farmers-going-coca-fields/

Notable: Flynn changes his banner background.

Banner change

https://twitter.com/GenFlynn

Notable: DJT Tweet: "We are on track to APPREHEND more than one million people coming across the Southern Border this year…"

NEW DJT

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1103666338365607936?s=19

Notable: These are the voting rights reforms Chuck Schumer wants Democrats to prioritize.

These Are The Voting Rights Reforms Chuck Schumer Wants Democrats To Prioritize

Sam Levine HuffPost March 7, 2019

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) says he plans to highlight three Democratic voting rights priorities on Thursday: Restoring a crucial piece of the Voting Rights Act, automatically registering voters and making Washington D.C. a state.

Schumer’s announcement comes after Democrats announced that voting rights would be a top priority after the midterm elections. The first piece of legislation introduced in the Democrat-controlled House contains a wide range of voting reforms, a move intended to signal the party’s commitment to expanding voting rights.

While Democrats acknowledge that their voting rights legislation is unlikely to pass while Republicans control the Senate and White House, they see the bills as an opportunity to underscore the party’s focus and show voters what they would pass if they had power.

Republicans have dominated the national conversation about voting rights in recent years with allegations of voter fraud. While several studies have shown that voter fraud is exceedingly rare, the GOP has been able to stir up fears of it remarkably effectively to justify voting restrictions.

“Denying access to the ballot to any eligible American citizen cuts against the heart of our democracy — the right to vote,” Schumer said in a statement.

The Senate minority leader announced Democrats’ priorities on the 59th anniversary of “Bloody Sunday,” the 1965 voting rights March in Selma, Alabama, where police beat civil rights activists on the Edmund Pettus Bridge.

Schumer is expected to highlight legislation that would restore a formula to the Voting Rights Act requiring certain jurisdictions to get their voting changes cleared by the federal government before they go into effect. The landmark 1965 law had a formula in place until 2013, but the Supreme Court struck it down that year, saying it was outdated and unconstitutional.

The bill would require any state to be put under preclearance if it has at least 15 voting rights violations over a 25-year period. If the state as a whole, as opposed to smaller jurisdictions within it, has a voting rights violation, it would need just 10 violations to be put back under preclearance. Identical legislation was introduced last week in the House.

The law would also require certain practices known to be linked to voting discrimination to be precleared, regardless of where they happen.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has strongly opposed the voting reforms Democrats are proposing, denouncing the proposals as a Democratic “power grab.” He also twisted an incident of election fraud in North Carolina that benefited a Republican candidate and said the reforms Democrats were proposing would lead to more fraud.

The second bill Schumer plans to highlight would require certain state agencies to automatically register voters unless they choose to opt out. Oregon was the first state to implement the practice, called automatic voter registration, in 2015, and Democrats have quickly seized on the idea as a way to expand the franchise. Fifteen states and the District of Columbia have adopted a variation of automatic voter registration.

Schumer’s support for D.C. statehood comes as the issue has been gaining momentum among Democrats. The district’s nearly 700,000 residents pay federal taxes but have no representation in Congress. Republicans have generally opposed statehood because it is believed voters would most likely elect Democratic representatives.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) identified it as a leading issue when she launched her campaign, and several other high-profile presidential candidates, including Sens. Cory Booker (D-N.J.), Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) back it as well.

BILL FOUND HERE: https://sewell.house.gov/sites/sewell.house.gov/files/Voting%20Rights%20Advancement%20Act%20of%202019.pdf

ENDORSED BY THE FOLLOWING:

In addition to Reps. Sewell, Lewis and Castro the bill was introduced by 207 representatives. In addition to Sens. Leahy and Jones, the bill was introduced by 46 senators.

The Voting Rights Advancement Act is endorsed by the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights; Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law; Brennan Center for Justice; Human Rights Campaign (HRC); National Urban League; Asian Americans Advancing Justice (AAJC); National Association of Latino Elected Officials (NALEO) Educational Fund; Native American Rights Fund (NARF); National Education Association (NEA); Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund (MALDEF); NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc.

SOURCE: https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/voting-rights-reforms-chuck-schumer-140334412.html

MOAR: https://sewell.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/sewell-leahy-introduce-voting-rights-advancement-act

Notable: Q group hunting Snowden.

Q, If you are lurking, please comment

I am assuming this was you.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/inside-the-q-group-the-directorate-hunting-down-edward-snowden

Notable: DJT Jr. Tweet: "So when he was shut down looking for a pardon, he figured he could save his ass by telling weasel Adam Schiff whatever he wanted to hear?…"

New DJT Jr.

#FullOfschiff Kek

So when he was shut down looking for a pardon, he figured he could save his ass by telling weasel Adam Schiff whatever he wanted to hear? I hope someone looks into this purjury… & investigates the leaks. #fullofschiff

Cohen Told Lawyer to Seek Pardon

https://twitter.com/donaldjtrumpjr/status/1103665015427645442?s=21

Notable: President Trump calls Apple CEO Tim Cook "Tim Apple"

bad apple or good apple?

WATCH: President Trump calls Apple CEO Tim Cook "Tim Apple"

https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/432974-trump-calls-apples-tim-cook-tim-apple-during-council-meeting

Notable: Ethics group prepares to file complaint against AOC.

Bye OAC

https://www.bizpacreview.com/2019/03/07/scoop-ethics-group-prepares-to-file-house-complaint-on-ocasio-cortezs-use-of-social-media-730678

Notable: ECB pushes out rate hike, offers cheap cash to banks.

ECB pushes out rate hike, offers cheap cash to banks

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - The European Central Bank changed tack on its tightening plan on Thursday, pushed out the timing of its first post-crisis rate hike until 2020 at the earliest and offering banks a new round of cheap loans to help revive the euro zone economy.

The bolder-than-expected move came as the U.S. Federal Reserve and other central banks around the world are also holding back on rate hikes. It underlined how a global trade war, Brexit uncertainty and simmering debt concerns in Italy are taking their toll on economic growth across Europe.

It casts ECB President Mario Dragio once again as nurturer of confidence in the bloc's still-fragile economy, only months after the bank announced the end of four years of unprecedented asset purchases, and as Draghi himself prepares to hand over the reins to a successor later this year.

Whereas the bank had previously said rates would remain at their record low levels through the summer, it said it now expected them to stay there "at least through the end of 2019".

While investors had long stopped pricing in an ECB rate hike this year, few expected the bank to change its policy message at this meeting. The surprise move caused yields on government bonds and the euro to fall after the announcement.

https://www.marketscreener.com/news/ECB-pushes-out-rate-hike-offers-cheap-cash-to-banks–28125016/

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Notable: Manafort to be sentenced Thursday

Sentencing Thursday 3/8/19 at 3:30pm EST

Paul Manafort's day of reckoning has finally arrived.

Months after Special Counsel Robert Mueller that Manafort had violated his plea agreement with federal prosecutors by allegedly lying about a promise to share campaign info with a purported Russian operative. For his crimes, Mueller insisted that Manafort be sentenced as soon as possible, and after a brief delay, US District Judge T.S. Ellis is expected to hand down Manafort's sentence on Thursday, possibly delivering what could be an effective life sentence for the former Trump campaign manager. Though Mueller hasn't recommended a specific sentence, federal guidelines recommend a prison term of between 19.5 and 24 years for Manafort.

The charges for which Manafort will be sentenced on Thursday include eight counts of bank fraud and other crimes for which he was convicted after an August trial, Reuters reported.

Defense lawyers have asked the judge to sentence Manafort to beetween 4-1/4 and 5-1/4 years in prison, and are expected to tell the judge that their client is remorseful and that the sentencing guidelines cited by prosecutors call for a prison term disproportionate to the offenses committed.

"The Special Counsel’s attempt to vilify Mr. Manafort as a lifelong and irredeemable felon is beyond the pale and grossly overstates the facts before this court," Manafort's lawyers wrote in a sentencing memo.

As one Twitter commentator pointed out, should he receive anything close to the maximum sentence, 69-year-old Manafort would very likely die in prison.

Manafort will die in prison if Trump doesn’t pardon him.

— Allan (@Allancook) March 6, 2019

The sentencing hearing is set for 3:30 pm ET. Next week, Manafort will face another sentencing in a separate case in Washington on two conspiracy charges to which he pleaded guilty in September as part of his plea with Mueller. He faces a statutory minimum of 10 years in that case, which US District Judge Amy Berman Jackson could potentially stack on top of whatever Mueller receives on Thursday.